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Criminal Justice 101

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1. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?






2. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?






3. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?






4. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?






5. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?






6. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?






7. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?






8. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?






9. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?






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






11. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?






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






13. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?






14. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?






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






16. What is meant by inferior courts?






17. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?






18. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?






19. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?






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






21. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?






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






23. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






25. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?






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






27. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?






28. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?






29. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?






30. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?






31. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






32. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?






33. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?






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






35. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






36. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?






37. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?






38. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?






39. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?






40. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?






41. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?






42. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?






43. What is the name for a felony complaint?






44. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?






45. Where does a felony case begin?






46. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?






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






48. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?






49. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?






50. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?







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