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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?






2. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?






3. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?






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






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






6. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?






7. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






8. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?






9. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?






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






11. What Latin term means great paper?






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






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






14. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?






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






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






17. Under English Common Law what was the general cut off age in distinguishing between those who could charged with felonies?






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






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






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






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






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






23. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?






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






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






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






27. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






28. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?






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






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






31. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?






32. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?






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






34. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?






35. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?






36. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?






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






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






39. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?






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






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






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






43. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?






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






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






46. Where does a misdemeanors case begin?






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






48. How is a jury panel selected?






49. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?






50. What are the three Terms of Imprisonment?