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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?

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2. What is discovery?






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






4. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?






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






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






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






8. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?






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






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






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






12. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'






13. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?






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






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






16. What do bills of attainer relate to?






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






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






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






20. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?






21. What is meant by inferior courts?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?






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






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






37. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?






38. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?






39. Is the Federal or State court system older?






40. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






41. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?






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






43. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?






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






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






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






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






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






49. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?






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