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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
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1. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?






2. How many states use the death penalty?






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






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






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






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






7. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?






8. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?






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






10. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?






11. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?






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






13. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






14. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?






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






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






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






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






19. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?






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






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






22. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?






23. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?






24. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?






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






26. What do bills of attainer relate to?






27. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?






28. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?






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






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






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






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






33. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?






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






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






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






37. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






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






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






40. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?






41. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






42. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






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






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






45. How many cases go to the local court level each year?






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






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






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






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






50. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?