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Criminal Justice 101
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Criminal Justice 101
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1. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?

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

3. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?

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

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

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

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

8. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?

9. How many states use the death penalty?

10. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?

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

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

13. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?

14. What major 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case established that the court would begin to interpret what the constitution was all about?

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

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

17. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?

18. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?

19. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?

20. What is another term for informal probation?

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

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

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

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

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