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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?






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






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






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






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






6. What does a mitigating factor make the report?






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






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






9. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?






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






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






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






13. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?






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






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






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






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






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






19. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?






20. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?






21. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?






22. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?






23. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?






24. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?






25. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?






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






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






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






29. What do bills of attainer relate to?






30. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?






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






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






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






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






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






36. What is meant by inferior courts?






37. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?






38. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?






39. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?






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






41. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






42. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?






43. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?






44. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?






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






46. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?






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






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






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






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