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Criminal Justice 101

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






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






3. Is the Federal or State court system older?






4. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?






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






6. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?

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15. Who is referred to as the father of probation?






16. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?






17. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?






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






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






20. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?






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






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






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






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






25. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






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






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






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






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






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






31. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?






32. What is meant by inferior courts?






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






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






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






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






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






38. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?






39. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?






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






41. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?






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






43. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?






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






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






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






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






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






49. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?






50. What does a mitigating factor make the report?







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