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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?






2. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






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






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






5. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?






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






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






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






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






17. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






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






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






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






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






22. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?






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






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






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






26. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?






27. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?






28. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?






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






30. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?






31. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






32. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?






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






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






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






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






37. How is a jury panel selected?






38. What is the name for a felony complaint?






39. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






41. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?






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






43. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?






44. What is another term for informal probation?






45. What do bills of attainer relate to?






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






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






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






49. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?






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