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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three systems to transfer juveniles to adult court?






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






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






4. Right to public trial






5. The substantive criminal law...






6. Truth in Sentencing






7. What is Duress?






8. Duties of probation officers






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






10. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






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






12. How confidential are juvenile records kept?






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






14. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






15. 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.






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






17. Bench Trial






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






19. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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20. Argument against the Death Penalty






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






22. A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes






23. According to Freud's psychological theory - deviant behavior is the result of...






24. What is General Deterrence?






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






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






27. Mens reas is important in determining if a person can be held criminally responsible and refers specifically to...






28. Good time






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






30. Competent Standard

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31. 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.






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






33. Determinate Sentencing






34. Concurrent Sentence






35. Conditions or restriction mandated by the court that must be obeyed by a probationer






36. 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...






37. An argument in favor of the O.J. trial is likely to point to the fact that...






38. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?






39. Right to an impartial jury






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






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






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






43. Right to compulsory process






44. Capital Punishment






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






46. Miranda Rights...






47. 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






48. 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.






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






50. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion