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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?






2. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






3. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






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






5. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?






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






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






8. How is a jury panel selected?






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






10. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?






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






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






13. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?






14. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. What Latin term means great paper?






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






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






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






27. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?






28. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?






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






30. Is the Federal or State court system older?






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






32. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?






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






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






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






36. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?






37. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?






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






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






40. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?






41. How many states use the death penalty?






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






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






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






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






46. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






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






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






49. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?






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