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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






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






3. Where does a felony case begin?






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






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






6. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'






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






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






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






10. What crimes is the death penalty used for?






11. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






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






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






14. What do bills of attainer relate to?






15. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?






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






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






18. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?






19. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?

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20. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






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






22. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






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






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






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






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






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






28. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






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






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






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






32. What are the five levels of force among agencies?






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






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






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






36. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?






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






38. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?






39. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?






40. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?






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






42. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?






43. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?






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






45. What is discovery?






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






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






48. Is the Federal or State court system older?






49. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?






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