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Criminal Justice

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1. A prison system - developed in New York during the nineteenth centry - based on congregate work during the day and seperaton at night.
Higher
Day Fees
The death penalty only applies to first degree murder and only when aggravating circumstances are present
New York (Auburn) System

2. Packer describes the crime models criminal justice system operating like an...
$200 billion
Statutory requirement - limits judges power
Assembly line
Halfway House

3. What is Duress?
Went down steadily
No - jury trials are NOT very common in the U.S.
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
$200 billion

4. The peak age for invovlment in violent crimes in the U.S. is...
Supreme court has established that criminal trials must remain public
18
Anger Managment
Prison

5. Are arrest rates of drug-related crime higher or lower then they were in the 1970's?
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors
Higher
1.4 million
Enter a plea

6. The investigation of the murder of a postal worker would fall within the jurisdiction of...
Highway Patrol
The FBI
Private attorneys
1.4 million

7. NCVS crime statistics are likely to be better then the UCR crimes statistics in...
Whether the person intentionally committed the act
Counting the number of rapes in the U.S.
Increasing
1. Large numbers of re-entering inmates; 2. Legal prohibition on kinds of employment; 3. Limits on obtaining licenses; 4. Restriction on freedom of movment

8. 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.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Self-defense and insanity
Community Service Restitution
Grand Jury

9. The decision by a prosecuttor to drop a case after a complaint has been made because of - for examples - insufficatient edvidence.
Restorative Justice
Unresolved personality conflicts in early childhood
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification
nolle prosequi

10. According to Beccaria - the three criteria required for deterrence to work ainclude...
Counting the number of rapes in the U.S.
Social agent
Most widely used type of sentence - goal is to indivdualize punishment
Certainty of punishment - swiftness of punishment - punishment that is proportional to the severity of the crime

11. Concurrent Jursidiction
Total Instutution
Unresolved personality conflicts in early childhood
15 states allow the prosecutor to decide
Judge should excuse himself or herself in there is a conflict of interest

12. 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
Self-incrimination
Revocation
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors

13. Status Offenders
7 Million Americans
Young - male - minority - poor
Commonly classified as Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) or Children in Need of Supervision (CHINS)
Assembly line

14. Which is more common - violent crimes or property crimes?
Property crimes
Committed an act in violation of the penal code
At least four justices have to agree that it should be heard by the Supreme Court and a writ of certiorari must be filed with the Supreme Court
Test for one's competents to stand trial

15. About how much does the U.S. spend on the criminal justice system every year?
Claiming he/she did not have effective counsul - claiming the plea was not made voluntarily and claiming that the prosecuter did not keep his/her promises made in the agreement
$200 billion
Trial by a judge without jury
Jail

16. In colonial America - the county sheriff's job included...
Anger Managment
The right to compel witnesses via subpoena
PRESUMPTION of DETENTION to limit the release of suspects on bail
Collecting taxes and supervising elections

17. A correctional policy that allow inates to leave the institution for vocational or educational training - for employment - or to maintain famly ties.
Furlough
16
PRESUMPTION of DETENTION to limit the release of suspects on bail
Make-believe family

18. According to Cohen's sub-culture or cultural deviance theory - gang values...
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Defense Attorney
Tend to be in opposition to mainstream cultural values
Super Maximum-Security Prison

19. Statutory Jurisdiction
The accused must be brought to trial within 100 days of being arrested
Collecting taxes and supervising elections
Should treat people of different classes equitably
29 states automatically exclude some offenses from juvenile court (EX. Rape/Murder)

20. Levying a money payment on offenders to compensate society for their misdeeds
Most widely used type of sentence - goal is to indivdualize punishment
Fine
Intake
Recoupment

21. The federal agency responsible for the witness protection program and fugitive investigations is...
The procedural criminal law
Televised coverage is not permitted in federal courts
If the punishment is 6 months in prisonment or more
The U.S. Marshall

22. Argument against the Death Penalty
1. Probability of error; 2. Unfair use of discretion; 3. Misplaced vengeance; 4. Weak public support; 5. Little deterrent effect; 6. Race/Gender biases; 7. Brutal; 8. Expensive
Defines what is criminal behavior and appropriate punishments
Restorative Justice
Furlough

23. A sentence in which offenders serve a short prison term before they begin probation - to impress them with the pain of imprisonment.
7 Million Americans
Shock Probation
Day Fees
15 states allow the prosecutor to decide

24. Probation failure correlates to...
Should treat people of different classes equitably
Young males - unemployed or low income - prior criminal record or history
The search of abandoned property - the search of an open field - the fly-over search of property
The U.S. Marshall

25. Establishes the practices and processes of the criminal law
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors
Total Instutution
The procedural criminal law
Inmate must serve at least 85% of sentence imposed by court

26. What time of year are crime rates in the U.S. the highest?
Most are in minimum security and are less violent
Intermediate Sanctions
1. determinate; 2. mandatory; 3. interminate
Summer

27. Jury Selection

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28. Common concerns with the privatization of policing includes...
Young males - unemployed or low income - prior criminal record or history
Accountability of private police to legal standards of policing and equity in treatment of rich and poor areas
About 10 felony arrests per month
Defense Attorney

29. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?
Recoupment
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons
Miranda Waivers are particularly relevent to juveniles
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture

30. During the araignment phase of the court process - defendants...
$200 billion
Enter a plea
Should be whether the defendent has sufficient present ability to consult with defendents lawyers and defend one's self
Illegally obtained confessions - cruel and unusual punishment and an impartial jury

31. Sir Robert Peel believed that police officers should...
1. determinate; 2. mandatory; 3. interminate
Should treat people of different classes equitably
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits
Collecting taxes and supervising elections

32. What did the BAIL REFORM ACT of 1984 establish?
Diversion
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
Judge directs jury to acquit the defendant because the prosecution has fail to prove the elements of the crime according to legal standards
PRESUMPTION of DETENTION to limit the release of suspects on bail

33. What do police officers spend most of their time on patrol doing?
Highway Patrol
Claiming he/she did not have effective counsul - claiming the plea was not made voluntarily and claiming that the prosecuter did not keep his/her promises made in the agreement
About 10 felony arrests per month
Responding to calls of service not chasing down criminals or making arrests

34. According to Shaw and McKay's social disorganization theory - crime rates in a geographic area can be explained by...
When a jury member is challenged for no reason
Forfeiture
Penitentiary House
The place and its charecteristics

35. Miranda Rights...
Probation Rules
Increasing
Shock Incarceration
Miranda Waivers are particularly relevent to juveniles

36. The majority of criminal cases in the U.S are investigated by...
The local police
Determined by judge -statutory requirements and jury recommendation
Statutory requirement - limits judges power
All evidence that is obtained illegally must be thrown out from the use at trial

37. Mandatory Sentence
Marriage
Increasing
Defense Attorney
Statutory requirement - limits judges power

38. According to the stop and frisk rule - established by the Terry vs Ohio case a police officer may stop and frisk a person...
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons
Fine
Highway Patrol
Self-incrimination

39. According to Sampson and Laub's age-graded theory of crime - a developmental theory - the following points are associated with reduced recidivism...
Shock Incarceration
Furlough
Marriage
Whent he punishment of one offender deters others

40. Problem of Re-entry
Work Release
1. Large numbers of re-entering inmates; 2. Legal prohibition on kinds of employment; 3. Limits on obtaining licenses; 4. Restriction on freedom of movment
18
Intake

41. The initial reaction in prison is usually...
Depression and loneliness are common and inmates must learn coping behaviors
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons
Community Service Restitution
Self-defense and insanity

42. The peak age for involvement in property crimes in the U.S is...
Community Service Restitution
The right to compel witnesses via subpoena
Sentence served one after another
16

43. An attorney employed by the government to represent criminal defenders who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer.
Public Defender
Property crimes
For criminal trials - the evidentairy standard is proof beyond a reasonable doubt
Is favorable because it increases efficiency

44. In female prisons - substitute family groups with a faux father - mother and siblings.
Make-believe family
Anger Managment
Insanity - battared woman syndrome - status as a juvenile
1. Impartial Judge; 2. Competent to Stand Trial; 3. Confront Witnesses; 4. Compulsory Process; 5. Impartial Jury; 6. Counsul; 7. Speedy Trial; 8. Public Trial

45. 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.
1. Incapactation; 2. Deterrence; 3. Moral 'an eye for an eye'; 4. Proportionality; 5. Public Opinion; 6. Low chance of error
The search of abandoned property - the search of an open field - the fly-over search of property
Revocation
Tend to be in opposition to mainstream cultural values

46. What are characteristics of inmates
Established customs and traditions
Young - male - minority - poor
Self-incrimination
Unresolved personality conflicts in early childhood

47. The early release of a prisoner from imprisonment subject to conditions set by correctional authorites.
Higher
Young - male - minority - poor
Guaranteed by the 6th amendment defendent may choose to waive the right to cousel and self-represent
Parole

48. Indeterminate Sentencing
Tend to be in opposition to mainstream cultural values
Counting the number of rapes in the U.S.
Most widely used type of sentence - goal is to indivdualize punishment
1.4 million

49. A state of federal correctional institution for incarceration of felony offenders for term of one year or more.
Judge should excuse himself or herself in there is a conflict of interest
Prison
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification
Enter a plea

50. The sentence
Marriage
Judge directs jury to acquit the defendant because the prosecution has fail to prove the elements of the crime according to legal standards
Determined by judge -statutory requirements and jury recommendation
Collecting taxes and supervising elections

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