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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. Statutory Jurisdiction






2. 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.






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






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






5. The process in which a probation officer settles cases at the initial appearance before the onset of formal criminal proceeding.






6. Capital Punishment






7. Right to public trial






8. Probation failure correlates to...






9. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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10. According to social reaction/labeling theory - some young people become criminals because...






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






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






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






14. Legal counsel for the defendant in a criminal case - representing to final appeal.






15. Truth in Sentencing






16. The average officers makes how many felony arrests per month?






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






18. Models of sentencing






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






20. Right to be competent at trail

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21. About how many Americans are under some form of correctional supervision?






22. Challenged for cause






23. Goals of Punishment






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






25. Peremptory Challenge






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






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






28. In female prisons - substitute family groups with a faux father - mother and siblings.






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






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






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. Bench Trial






33. The sentence






34. Motion for a direct verdict






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






36. What did the BAIL REFORM ACT of 1984 establish?






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Right to confront witnesses






44. According to Cohen's sub-culture or cultural deviance theory - gang values...






45. What are characteristics of inmates






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






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






48. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






49. 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






50. Delinquents







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