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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Common concerns with the privatization of policing includes...






2. Verdict






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






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






5. Models of sentencing






6. Probation failure correlates to...






7. Bench Trial






8. A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes






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






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






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






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






13. A prison system - developed in Pennsylvania during the nineteeth centry - based on total isolation and individual pentence.






14. The least secure institution that houses white-colar and nonviolent offenders - maintains few security measures - and has liberal furlough and visitation policies.






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






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






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






18. Right to counsel






19. 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.






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






21. Stare decisis refers to the concept that legal decisions should be based on...






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






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






24. Right to public trial






25. Jury Selection

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26. During the araignment phase of the court process - defendants...






27. Right to confront witnesses






28. Duties of probation officers






29. Problem of Re-entry






30. Are Jury trial common in the U.S.?






31. Miranda Rights...






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






35. What is Duress?






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






37. Mandatory Sentence






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






39. The sentence






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






41. Three Strikes Law






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






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






44. In the common law - a crime that is considered mala in se is...






45. Capital Punishment






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






47. Right to speedy trial






48. Right to be competent at trail

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






50. Which is more common - violent crimes or property crimes?