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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?






2. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?






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






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






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






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






7. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?






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






9. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?






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






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






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






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






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 criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?






16. What is meant by inferior courts?






17. How many states use the death penalty?






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






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






20. The Federal Court system was created through what?






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






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






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






30. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?






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






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






33. How many cases go to the local court level each year?






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






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






36. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?






45. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?






46. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






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






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






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






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