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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. 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.






2. Determinate Sentencing






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






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






5. Judicial Waiver






6. What are characteristics of inmates






7. Right to public trial






8. Challenged for cause






9. Sir Robert Peel believed that police officers should...






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






11. Good time






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






13. Trial Process






14. A sentence entailing the conditional release of a convicted offender into the community under the supervision of the court






15. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






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






17. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. Bench Trial






25. Right to compulsory process






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






27. Duties of probation officers






28. Factors that Influence Sentencing






29. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






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






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






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






33. Right to counsel






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






35. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?






36. Problem of Re-entry






37. A community-based correctional facility that houses inmates before their outright released so that they can become gradually acclimatd to conventional society.






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






39. Probation failure correlates to...






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






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






42. Physical punishment or punishment that is far in excess of that given to people under similar circumstances and is therefore banned by the eighth amendment. The death penalty has so far not been considered cruel and unusual if it is administered in f






43. Status Offenders






44. About how many Americans are under some form of correctional supervision?






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






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






47. Jury Selection

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48. According to Shaw and McKay's social disorganization theory - crime rates in a geographic area can be explained by...






49. A view of criminal justice that focuses on crime as an act against the community rather than the state






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