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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. An attorney employed by the government to represent criminal defenders who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer.






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






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






4. Judicial Waiver






5. Miranda Rights...






6. In order for a case to be heard by the Supreme Court...






7. What time of year are crime rates in the U.S. the highest?






8. A person can challenge a guilty plea by...






9. Duties of probation officers






10. Concurrent Sentence






11. According to the Supreme Court - the following activities would not violate individual protections against illegal seasrch and seizure...






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






13. The sentence






14. Right to an impartial jury






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






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






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






18. The substantive criminal law...






19. Capital Punishment






20. Three Strikes Law






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






22. About how much does the U.S. spend on the criminal justice system every year?






23. 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.






24. 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






25. The Supreme Court descison on NO EXCEPTIONS said that...






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






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






28. A state of federal correctional institution for incarceration of felony offenders for term of one year or more.






29. Peremptory Challenge






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






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






32. What is Duress?






33. According to Beccaria - the three criteria required for deterrence to work ainclude...






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






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






36. Trial Process






37. Alternative Correctional Institution






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






39. A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes






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






41. Women Imprisoned






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






43. Process by which the state later recovers some or all of the cost of providing free legal counsel to an indigent defendant.






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






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






46. Concurrent Jursidiction






47. Jury Selection

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






49. Indeterminate Sentencing






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






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