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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?






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






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






4. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






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






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






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






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






9. How many states use the death penalty?






10. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?






11. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






12. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?






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






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






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






16. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?






17. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






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






28. The three federal courts are known as what?






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






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






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






32. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?






33. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?






34. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?






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






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






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






38. What is another term for informal probation?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






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