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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






2. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?






3. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?






4. What do bills of attainer relate to?






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






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






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






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






9. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?






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






11. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?






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






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






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






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






16. The three federal courts are known as what?






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






18. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?






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






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






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






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






23. What crimes is the death penalty used for?






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






25. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?






33. What does O.R. mean?






34. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?






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






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






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






38. What Latin term means great paper?






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






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






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






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






43. Is the Federal or State court system older?






44. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






45. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?






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






47. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?






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






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






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