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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. From 1995 to 2005 - the crime rate in the U.S...






2. Broken window policing is a strategy in which police officer...






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






4. Packer describes the due process model of the criminal justice system operating like an...






5. Packer describes the crime models criminal justice system operating like an...






6. Status Offenders






7. The early release of a prisoner from imprisonment subject to conditions set by correctional authorites.






8. During the araignment phase of the court process - defendants...






9. Levying a money payment on offenders to compensate society for their misdeeds






10. According to Sampson and Laub's age-graded theory of crime - a developmental theory - the following points are associated with reduced recidivism...






11. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






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






13. An attorney employed by the government to represent criminal defenders who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer.






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






15. The decision by a prosecuttor to drop a case after a complaint has been made because of - for examples - insufficatient edvidence.






16. The policing style associated with police officers belief that it is his duty to be a first line responder to various problems in the community is...






17. Capital Punishment






18. Three Strikes Law






19. A correctional institution that houses dangerous felons and maintains strict security measure - high walls - and limited contact with the outside world.






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






21. Truth in Sentencing






22. According to choice theories of crime (classical school) - humans are'






23. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?






24. Which is more common - violent crimes or property crimes?






25. Stare decisis refers to the concept that legal decisions should be based on...






26. Mandatory Sentence






27. Jury Selection

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28. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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29. Concurrent Sentence






30. How many percent of criminal defendents are considered indigent?






31. Miranda Rights...






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






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






34. Verdict






35. Models of sentencing






36. Programs designed to help people who have become dependent on anger as a primary means of expressing themselves and those who inappropriately use anger or the threat of violence as a means to get their way.






37. Peremptory Challenge






38. A program requiring probationers to pay in part for the costs of their treatment.






39. Indeterminate Sentencing






40. In the common law - a crime that is considered mala in se is...






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






42. Some of the policing reforms that August Vollmer proposed include...






43. Judicial Waiver






44. Are arrest rates of drug-related crime higher or lower then they were in the 1970's?






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






46. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






47. What was significant about the Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899?






48. The newest form of a maximum-security prison that uses high-level securtity mesasure to incapacitate the nation's most dangerous criminals. Most inmates are in lockdown 23 hours per day.






49. Right to confront witnesses






50. Are tv camara's aloud in federal court?







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