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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The least secure institution that houses white-colar and nonviolent offenders - maintains few security measures - and has liberal furlough and visitation policies.






2. 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...






3. An attorney employed by the government to represent criminal defenders who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer.






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






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






6. Three Strikes Law






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






8. Alternative Correctional Institution






9. What is Duress?






10. Indeterminate Sentencing






11. Judicial Waiver






12. Models of sentencing






13. Verdict






14. 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.






15. How confidential are juvenile records kept?






16. Statutory Jurisdiction






17. Determinate Sentencing






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






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






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






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






22. The officers of the London Metropolitan Police...






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






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






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






26. The early release of a prisoner from imprisonment subject to conditions set by correctional authorites.






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






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






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






30. Miranda Rights...






31. 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.






32. Probation failure correlates to...






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






34. Packer describes the due process model of the criminal justice system operating like an...






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






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






37. The majority of criminal cases in the U.S are investigated by...






38. 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.






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






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






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






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. Mandatory Sentence






45. The investigation of the murder of a postal worker would fall within the jurisdiction of...






46. According to Sampson and Laub's age-graded theory of crime - a developmental theory - the following points are associated with reduced recidivism...






47. Problem of Re-entry






48. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






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






50. Common concerns with the privatization of policing includes...