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Criminal Justice 101

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1. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?






2. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?






3. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?






4. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?






5. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?






6. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?






7. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?






8. The three federal courts are known as what?






9. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?






10. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?






11. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?






12. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?






13. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?






14. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?






15. The Federal Court system was created through what?






16. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?






17. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?






18. What is discovery?






19. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?






20. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






21. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?






22. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?






23. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?






24. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?






25. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?






26. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?






27. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?






28. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?






29. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?






30. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?






31. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?






32. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?






33. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?






34. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?






35. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?






36. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?






37. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?






38. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?






39. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?






40. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?






41. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'






42. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?

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43. Who is referred to as the father of probation?






44. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?






45. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?






46. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?






47. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?






48. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?






49. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






50. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?