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Criminal Justice 101

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1. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?






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






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






4. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?






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






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






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






8. Who were the country's first president and vice president?






9. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?






10. Where does a felony case begin?






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






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






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






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






15. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






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






17. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?






18. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?






19. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?






20. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?






21. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






22. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






23. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?






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






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






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






27. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?






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






29. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






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






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






33. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?






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






35. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?






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






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






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






39. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?






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






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






42. What does ex-post facto law relate to?






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






44. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






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






46. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?






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






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






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






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







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