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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?






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






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






4. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?






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






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






7. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






8. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?






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






10. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






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






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






13. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?






14. Is the Federal or State court system older?






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






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






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






18. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






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






30. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?






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






32. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?






41. What Latin term means great paper?






42. What two things do military police entities possess?






43. What do bills of attainer relate to?






44. The three federal courts are known as what?






45. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?






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






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






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






49. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?






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