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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?






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






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






4. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?






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






6. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?






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






8. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?






9. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?






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






11. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?






12. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?






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






14. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?






15. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?






16. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?






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






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






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






20. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?






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






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






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






24. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?






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






26. What Latin term means great paper?






27. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?






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






29. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?






38. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?






39. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






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






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






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






43. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?






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






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






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






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






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






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

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50. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?