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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'






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






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






4. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?






5. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?






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


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






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






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






18. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?






19. What Latin term means great paper?






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






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






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






23. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?






33. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






34. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?






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






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






37. What crimes is the death penalty used for?






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






39. What do bills of attainer relate to?






40. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?






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






42. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?






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






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






45. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






46. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






47. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?






48. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?






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






50. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?