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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?






2. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?






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






4. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?






5. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






6. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?






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






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






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


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






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






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






13. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?






14. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?






15. What do bills of attainer relate to?






16. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?






17. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?






18. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?






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






20. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






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






22. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?






23. Who were the country's first president and vice president?






24. What two things do military police entities possess?






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






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






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






28. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?






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






30. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?






31. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?






32. How is a jury panel selected?






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






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






35. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?






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






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






38. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?






39. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?






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






41. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






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






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






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






45. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?






46. Who is referred to as the father of probation?






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






48. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?






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






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