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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?






2. What do bills of attainer relate to?






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






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






5. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?






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






7. What is meant by inferior courts?






8. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'






9. Is the Federal or State court system older?






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






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






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






13. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?






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






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






16. What is another term for informal probation?






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






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






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






20. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?






21. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?






22. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?






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






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






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






26. What is a county law enforcement agency's head administrator?






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






28. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?

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






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






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






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






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






34. How many states use the death penalty?






35. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?

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






37. What are the five levels of force among agencies?






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






39. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






40. What does O.R. mean?






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






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






49. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?






50. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?







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