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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
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1. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?






2. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?






3. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






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






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






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






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






8. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?






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






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






11. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






12. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?






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






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






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






16. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






17. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?






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






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






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






21. The three federal courts are known as what?






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






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






24. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?






25. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






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






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






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






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






30. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?






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






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






33. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?






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






35. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?






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






37. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?






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






39. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






41. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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