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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?






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






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






4. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?






5. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?






6. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?






7. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?






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






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






10. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?






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






12. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?






13. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?






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






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






16. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






17. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?






18. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?






19. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?






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






21. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?






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






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






24. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?






25. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?






26. Is the Federal or State court system older?






27. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?






28. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?






29. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?






30. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?






31. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?






32. What crimes is the death penalty used for?






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






34. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






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






36. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?






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






38. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?






39. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






40. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?






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






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






43. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?






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






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






46. What two things do military police entities possess?






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






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






49. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?






50. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?