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Criminal Justice 101

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






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






3. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






4. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






5. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






6. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






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






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






9. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?






10. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?






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






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






13. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?






14. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?






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






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






17. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?






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






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






20. What crimes is the death penalty used for?






21. Where does a felony case begin?






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






23. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?






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






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






26. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?






27. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?






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






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






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






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






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

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






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






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






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






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






38. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?






39. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?






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






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






42. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?






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






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






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






46. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?






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






48. What Latin term means great paper?






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






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







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