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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?






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






3. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






4. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?






5. The Federal Court system was created through what?






6. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?






7. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






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






9. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?






10. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?






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






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






13. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?






14. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?






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






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






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






18. How is a jury panel selected?






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






20. What is discovery?






21. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






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






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






24. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






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






27. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?






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






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






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






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






32. The three federal courts are known as what?






33. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?






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






35. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?






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






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






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






39. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?






40. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?






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






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






43. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?






44. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






45. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?






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






47. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?






48. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?






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






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