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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?






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






3. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






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






5. What is another term for informal probation?






6. How many states use the death penalty?






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






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






9. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?






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






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






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






13. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






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






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






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

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17. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?






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






19. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?






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






21. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?






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






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






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






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






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






27. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?






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






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






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






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






32. What Latin term means great paper?






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






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






35. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






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






37. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?






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






39. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






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






41. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?






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






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






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






45. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?






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






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






48. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?






49. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?






50. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?