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Criminal Justice 101

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






2. What is another term for informal probation?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?






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






13. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?






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






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






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






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






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






19. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






20. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






21. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?






22. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






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






24. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?






25. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






26. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






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






28. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?






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






30. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?






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






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






33. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






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






35. What does O.R. mean?






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






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






38. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?






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






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






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






42. What is meant by inferior courts?






43. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?






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






45. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






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






47. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






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






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