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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
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1. Capital Punishment






2. A defendent who lacks the funds to hire a private attorney and is therefore entitled to free counsel.






3. The average officers makes how many felony arrests per month?






4. The substantive criminal law...






5. A sentence in which offenders serve a short prison term before they begin probation - to impress them with the pain of imprisonment.






6. According to Cohen's sub-culture or cultural deviance theory - gang values...






7. Argument against the Death Penalty






8. What is General Deterrence?






9. Problems of Parole






10. Miranda Rights...






11. NCVS crime statistics are likely to be better then the UCR crimes statistics in...






12. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?






13. What percentage of police departments require officers to have a college degree?






14. The peak age for invovlment in violent crimes in the U.S. is...






15. Are Jury trial common in the U.S.?






16. The investigation of the murder of a postal worker would fall within the jurisdiction of...






17. According to the stop and frisk rule - established by the Terry vs Ohio case a police officer may stop and frisk a person...






18. Consecutive sentence






19. How confidential are juvenile records kept?






20. A place to detain people awaiting trial - to serve as a lockup for drunks and disorderly individuals - and to confine convicted misdemeanants serving sentences of less then ten






21. What are characteristics of inmates






22. The peak age for involvement in property crimes in the U.S is...






23. An example of the criminal defense of EXCUSE is...






24. Mens reas is important in determining if a person can be held criminally responsible and refers specifically to...






25. Is female involvement in violent crime increasing or decreasing?






26. In female prisons - substitute family groups with a faux father - mother and siblings.






27. In colonial America - the county sheriff's job included...






28. What did the BAIL REFORM ACT of 1984 establish?






29. The officers of the London Metropolitan Police...






30. Challenged for cause






31. The sizure of personal property by the state as a civil or criminal penalty.






32. Mandatory Sentence






33. The least secure institution that houses white-colar and nonviolent offenders - maintains few security measures - and has liberal furlough and visitation policies.






34. The sentence






35. Common concerns with the privatization of policing includes...






36. The federal agency responsible for the witness protection program and fugitive investigations is...






37. Jury Selection

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38. What is the criteria to determine whether someone is entitled to jury trial?






39. The group of punishment falling between probation and prison. Community-based sanction - including house arrest and intensive supervision - serve as alternatives to incarceration.






40. A condition of probation in which the offender repays society or the victim of crime for the trouble the offender caused.






41. The Conflict View of criminal definitions assumes that criminal law expresses...






42. Civil right that include the right of inmates to receive mail and medical benefits and to practice their religion.






43. Bench Trial






44. A prison system - developed in Pennsylvania during the nineteeth centry - based on total isolation and individual pentence.






45. An administrative act performed by a parole authority that remove a person from parole -or a judicial orded by a court removing a person from parole or probation - in response to a violation on the part of the parolee.






46. According to social reaction/labeling theory - some young people become criminals because...






47. A court order requiring a witness to appear in court at a specified time and place.






48. A short prison sentence served in boot camp-type facilities






49. From 1995 to 2005 - the crime rate in the U.S...






50. A prison treatment program that allows inmates to be released during the day to work in the community and return to prison at night.