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Criminal Justice 101

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






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






3. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?






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






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






6. What is meant by inferior courts?






7. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?






8. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?






9. What is another term for informal probation?






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






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






12. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?






13. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?






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






15. What two things do military police entities possess?






16. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?






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






18. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?






19. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?






20. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?






21. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






22. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?






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






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






25. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?






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






27. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?






28. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?






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

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






31. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?






32. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?






33. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?






34. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






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






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






37. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?






38. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?






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






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






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






42. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?






43. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?






44. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?






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






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






47. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?






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






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






50. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?







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