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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. Packer describes the due process model of the criminal justice system operating like an...






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Right to public trial






9. 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.






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






11. A short term militaristic correctional facility in which inmates undergo intensive physical conditioning and discipline.






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






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






14. How confidential are juvenile records kept?






15. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?






16. Competent Standard

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






18. 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.






19. Trial Process






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






21. Problems of Parole






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






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






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






25. Delinquents






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






27. Right to an impartial judge






28. According to Packer's due process model of criminal justice - plea bargaining...






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






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






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






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






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






34. Status Offenders






35. Right to compulsory process






36. The sentence






37. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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38. Capital Punishment






39. Right to an impartial jury






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






46. Probation failure correlates to...






47. 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...






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






49. A prison system - developed in New York during the nineteenth centry - based on congregate work during the day and seperaton at night.






50. Concurrent Sentence