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






3. Is the Federal or State court system older?






4. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






5. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?






6. What crimes is the death penalty used for?






7. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?






8. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?






9. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?






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






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






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






13. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?






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






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






16. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?






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






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






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






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






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






22. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?






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






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






25. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?






26. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?






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






28. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?






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






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






31. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?






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






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






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






35. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






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






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






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






40. Where does a felony case begin?






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






42. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






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






44. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?






45. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






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






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






48. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?






49. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






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