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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






2. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






3. How many states use the death penalty?






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






5. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?






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






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






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






9. What do bills of attainer relate to?






10. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?






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






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






13. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?






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






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






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






17. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






18. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






19. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?






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

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






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






30. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






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






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






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






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






35. What Latin term means great paper?






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






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






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






39. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?






40. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?






41. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?






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






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






44. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?






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






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






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






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






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






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