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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. According to the stop and frisk rule - established by the Terry vs Ohio case a police officer may stop and frisk a person...






2. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?






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






4. Models of sentencing






5. 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.






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






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






8. Problems of Parole






9. Right to speedy trial






10. Right to an impartial jury






11. Duties of probation officers






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






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






14. The peak age for involvement in property crimes in the U.S is...






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






16. Jury Selection

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17. In colonial America - the county sheriff's job included...






18. 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.






19. Statutory Jurisdiction






20. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






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






22. Evidentiary Standard






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






24. Verdict






25. Concurrent Sentence






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






27. 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.






28. Motion for a direct verdict






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






30. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?






31. Determinate Sentencing






32. Competent Standard

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






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






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






36. In order for a case to be heard by the Supreme Court...






37. Challenged for cause






38. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion






39. What is General Deterrence?






40. Bench Trial






41. Right to an impartial judge






42. The sentence






43. A program requiring probationers to pay in part for the costs of their treatment.






44. Three Strikes Law






45. The decision by a prosecuttor to drop a case after a complaint has been made because of - for examples - insufficatient edvidence.






46. 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






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






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






49. Right to public trial






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