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Criminal Justice 101

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1. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?






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






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






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






5. What Latin term means great paper?






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






7. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?






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






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






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






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






12. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?






13. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?






14. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?






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






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






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






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






19. What is another term for informal probation?






20. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?






30. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?






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






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






33. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






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






35. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?






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






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






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

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39. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?






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






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






42. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?






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






44. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






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






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






47. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?






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






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






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







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