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Criminal Justice 101

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1. What do bills of attainer relate to?






2. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






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






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






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






6. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?






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






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






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






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






11. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?






12. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?






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






14. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?






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






16. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






17. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?






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






19. 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?






20. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?






21. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?






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






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






24. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?






25. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?






26. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?






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






28. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?






29. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?






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






31. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?






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






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






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






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






36. How is a jury panel selected?






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






38. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






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






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






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






42. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?






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






44. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?






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






46. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






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






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






49. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






50. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?







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