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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Stare decisis refers to the concept that legal decisions should be based on...






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






3. What is General Deterrence?






4. Who has a better record of defending clients; private or public attorneys?






5. Duties of probation officers






6. An alternative sanction that requires an offender to work in the community at such task as cleaning public parks or working with disabled children in lieu of an incarceration sentence.






7. The attempt by correctional agencies to maintain convicted offenders in the community instead of a secure facilty it includes probation - parole and residential programs.






8. An example of the criminal defense of justifaction is...






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






10. Challenged for cause






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






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






13. 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






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






15. Right to speedy trial






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






17. Judicial Waiver






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






19. A correctional policy that allow inates to leave the institution for vocational or educational training - for employment - or to maintain famly ties.






20. What are characteristics of inmates






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






22. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?






23. Indeterminate Sentencing






24. A group of citizens chosen to hear charges against persons accused of crime and to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to bring the person to trial.






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






26. A regimented - dehumanizing institution such as a prison in which like-situated people are kept in social isolation - cut off from the world at large.






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






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






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






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






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






32. Right to an impartial judge






33. 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.






34. Statutory Jurisdiction






35. The PRIMARY work of state law enforcement agencies involve...






36. What do police officers spend most of their time on patrol doing?






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






38. The majority of criminal cases in the U.S are investigated by...






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






40. A form of intermediate sanction that requires that the convicted offender spend a designated amount of time per week in his or her own home-such as from 6:00 P.M. Friday until 8:00 A.M.






41. Mandatory Sentence






42. What is the common criteria for juveniles to be diverted to community programs?






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






44. Concurrent Sentence






45. The 5th amendment protects citizens from...






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






47. The use of an alternative to trial - such as referral to treament or employment programs.






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






49. Models of sentencing






50. 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...