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Criminal Justice 101

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






2. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






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






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






5. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?






6. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?






7. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?






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






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






10. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?






11. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?






12. What is another term for informal probation?






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






14. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?






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






16. What do bills of attainer relate to?






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






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






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






20. What does O.R. mean?






21. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






22. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?






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






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






25. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






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






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






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






29. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?






30. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?






31. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?






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






33. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?






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






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






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






37. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?






38. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?






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






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






41. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?






42. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?






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






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






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






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






47. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






48. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?






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






50. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?