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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?






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






3. What Latin term means great paper?






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






5. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






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






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






9. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






10. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?






11. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?






12. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?






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






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






15. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?






16. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






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






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






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






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






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






22. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






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






24. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






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






26. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?






27. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?






28. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?






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






30. What is the name for a felony complaint?






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






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






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






34. What crimes is the death penalty used for?






35. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?






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






37. Is the Federal or State court system older?






38. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?






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






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






41. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?






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






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






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






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






46. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?






47. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?






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






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

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