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Criminal Justice 101

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1. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?






2. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?






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






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






5. What two things do military police entities possess?






6. What does O.R. mean?






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






8. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?






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






10. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?






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






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






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

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






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






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






17. What is another term for informal probation?






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






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






20. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?






21. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?






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






23. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?






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






25. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






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






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






28. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?






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






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






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






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






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






34. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?






35. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?






43. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?






44. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?






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






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






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






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






49. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?






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







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