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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?






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






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






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






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






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






14. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?






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






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






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






18. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?






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






20. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?






21. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?






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






23. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?






24. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?






25. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?






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






27. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?






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






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






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






31. What is the name for a felony complaint?






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






33. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?






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






35. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?






36. Who is referred to as the father of probation?






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






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






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






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






41. What is discovery?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?






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






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