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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?






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






3. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






4. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?






5. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. What is discovery?






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






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






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






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






17. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






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






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






20. What is another term for informal probation?






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






22. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?


23. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






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






25. What do bills of attainer relate to?






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






27. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?






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






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






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






31. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?






32. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?






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






34. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






35. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






36. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?






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






38. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?






39. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






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






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






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






43. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?






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






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






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






47. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?






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






49. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?






50. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?