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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In colonial America - the county sheriff's job included...






2. A court order requiring a witness to appear in court at a specified time and place.






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






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






5. Bench Trial






6. About how much does the U.S. spend on the criminal justice system every year?






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






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






9. A short prison sentence served in boot camp-type facilities






10. According to Beccaria - the three criteria required for deterrence to work ainclude...






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






12. Right to public trial






13. The initial reaction in prison is usually...






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Problem of Re-entry






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion






26. How confidential are juvenile records kept?






27. Factors that Influence Sentencing






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






29. Status Offenders






30. What is General Deterrence?






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






32. An investigation performed by a probation officer attached to a trial court after the conviction of a defendent.






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






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






35. About how many people are in prisons in the US?






36. Consecutive sentence






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






38. What is the criteria to determine whether someone is entitled to jury trial?






39. A form of intermediate sanction that requires that the convicted offender spend a designated amount of time per week in his or her own home-such as from 6:00 P.M. Friday until 8:00 A.M.






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






41. Right to confront witnesses






42. Judicial Waiver






43. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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.






48. A prison treatment program that allows inmates to be released during the day to work in the community and return to prison at night.






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






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