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Criminal Justice 101

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






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






3. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?






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






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






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






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






8. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?






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






10. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






11. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?






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






13. What is the name for a felony complaint?






14. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?

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






16. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?






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






18. What Latin term means great paper?






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. What do bills of attainer relate to?






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






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






28. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






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






30. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






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






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






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






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






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






36. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






37. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?






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






39. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?






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






41. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






42. What two things do military police entities possess?






43. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?

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






45. What does O.R. mean?






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






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






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






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






50. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?







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