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Criminal Justice 101

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






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






3. What Latin term means great paper?






4. How many states use the death penalty?






5. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






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






7. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?






8. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






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






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






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






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






13. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?






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






15. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?






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






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






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






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






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






21. Is the Federal or State court system older?






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






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






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






25. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?






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






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






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






29. What is another term for informal probation?






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






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






32. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?






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






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






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






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






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






38. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






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






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

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48. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?






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






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