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Criminal Justice 101

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






2. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?






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






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






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






6. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?






7. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?






8. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






9. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?






10. The Federal Court system was created through what?






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






12. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?






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






14. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






15. Where does a felony case begin?






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






17. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?

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






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






20. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?






21. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?






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






23. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






24. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






25. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?






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






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






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






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






30. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?






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






32. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






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






34. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?






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






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






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






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






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






40. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?






41. What crimes is the death penalty used for?






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






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






44. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?






45. What two things do military police entities possess?






46. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?






47. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






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






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






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







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