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Criminal Justice 101

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






2. The three federal courts are known as what?






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






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






5. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?






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

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






8. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?






9. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






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






11. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?






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






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






14. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






15. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?






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






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






18. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






19. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?






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






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






22. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?






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






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






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






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






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






28. How many states use the death penalty?






29. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?






30. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?






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






32. What is meant by inferior courts?






33. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






34. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?






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






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






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






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






39. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






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






41. 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?






42. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?






43. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?






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






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






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






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






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






49. What do bills of attainer relate to?






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






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