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Criminal Justice

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1. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?
Defines what is criminal behavior and appropriate punishments
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits
They frequently mistake the indentity of suspects

2. A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
Diversion
Probation Rules
Penitentiary House
Certainty of punishment - swiftness of punishment - punishment that is proportional to the severity of the crime

3. A sentence entailing the conditional release of a convicted offender into the community under the supervision of the court
Is favorable because it increases efficiency
Illegally obtained confessions - cruel and unusual punishment and an impartial jury
Probation
The accused must be brought to trial within 100 days of being arrested

4. The Supreme Court descison on NO EXCEPTIONS said that...
Test for one's competents to stand trial
Summer
Day Fees
All evidence that is obtained illegally must be thrown out from the use at trial

5. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?
A fixed term of incarceration
Illegally obtained confessions - cruel and unusual punishment and an impartial jury
45 states have provisions that allow judges to transer cases to the adult court room
Probation Rules

6. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors
45 states have provisions that allow judges to transer cases to the adult court room
Public Defender
Social agent

7. Determinate Sentencing
Most widely used type of sentence - goal is to indivdualize punishment
A fixed term of incarceration
Forfeiture
1. General Deterrence; 2. Specific Deterrence; 3. Incapaition; 4. Rehab; 5. Restitution

8. An argument in favor of the O.J. trial is likely to point to the fact that...
Commonly classified as Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) or Children in Need of Supervision (CHINS)
There were too many police errors to trust the police evidence
Whether the person intentionally committed the act
$200 billion

9. Trial Process
Society expects them to be criminals
Sentence served simultaneously
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture
1. Jury Selection; 2. Opening Statement; 3. Prosecution Case; 4. Motion for Directed Verdict; 5. Closing Argument; 6. Direction to Jury; 7. Verdict; 8. Sentence; 9. Appeal

10. In colonial America - the county sheriff's job included...
Work Release
Collecting taxes and supervising elections
Should treat people of different classes equitably
No - jury trials are NOT very common in the U.S.

11. 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...
About 20% and most police departments require at least an associates degree
Private attorneys
Can earn 10 to 15 days per month and sentence reduction
Social agent

12. Process by which the state later recovers some or all of the cost of providing free legal counsel to an indigent defendant.
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification
Recoupment
Young males - unemployed or low income - prior criminal record or history
Should be whether the defendent has sufficient present ability to consult with defendents lawyers and defend one's self

13. Are arrest rates of drug-related crime higher or lower then they were in the 1970's?
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification
Higher
Intake

14. Right to speedy trial
Restitution
Higher
1. determinate; 2. mandatory; 3. interminate
The accused must be brought to trial within 100 days of being arrested

15. According to Cohen's sub-culture or cultural deviance theory - gang values...
Tend to be in opposition to mainstream cultural values
Insanity - battared woman syndrome - status as a juvenile
1. Probability of error; 2. Unfair use of discretion; 3. Misplaced vengeance; 4. Weak public support; 5. Little deterrent effect; 6. Race/Gender biases; 7. Brutal; 8. Expensive
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16. Factors that Influence Sentencing
Shock Probation
Test for one's competents to stand trial
1. Severity of offense; 2. Prior criminal record; 3. Use of violence; 4. Use of weapons; 5. Motivation (money)
nolle prosequi

17. What are characteristics of inmates
Day Fees
Established that juveniles should be rehabilitated not punished and that children should not be treated as adults
Make-believe family
Young - male - minority - poor

18. Bench Trial
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture
Trial by a judge without jury
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
Televised coverage is not permitted in federal courts

19. Which is more common - violent crimes or property crimes?
Should be whether the defendent has sufficient present ability to consult with defendents lawyers and defend one's self
Can earn 10 to 15 days per month and sentence reduction
1. First time offender; 2. Non-violent or status offender; 3. Alcahol or drug problem
Property crimes

20. A prison system - developed in New York during the nineteenth centry - based on congregate work during the day and seperaton at night.
Sentence served one after another
New York (Auburn) System
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification
Can earn 10 to 15 days per month and sentence reduction

21. The majority of criminal cases in the U.S are investigated by...
When a jury member is challenged for no reason
Self-defense and insanity
Illegally obtained confessions - cruel and unusual punishment and an impartial jury
The local police

22. The group of punishment falling between probation and prison. Community-based sanction - including house arrest and intensive supervision - serve as alternatives to incarceration.
Intermediate Sanctions
Private attorneys
Work Release
Collecting taxes and supervising elections

23. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?
About 10 felony arrests per month
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture
Social agent
The views of powerful elites in society

24. 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.
Judge should excuse himself or herself in there is a conflict of interest
Diversion
Revocation
1. Probability of error; 2. Unfair use of discretion; 3. Misplaced vengeance; 4. Weak public support; 5. Little deterrent effect; 6. Race/Gender biases; 7. Brutal; 8. Expensive

25. A program requiring probationers to pay in part for the costs of their treatment.
Restorative Justice
Day Fees
Shock Incarceration
Responding to calls of service not chasing down criminals or making arrests

26. 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.
New York (Auburn) System
Anger Managment
Most widely used type of sentence - goal is to indivdualize punishment
29 states automatically exclude some offenses from juvenile court (EX. Rape/Murder)

27. The substantive criminal law...
Shock Incarceration
Unresolved personality conflicts in early childhood
The procedural criminal law
Defines what is criminal behavior and appropriate punishments

28. According to Packer's due process model of criminal justice - plea bargaining...
All evidence that is obtained illegally must be thrown out from the use at trial
A fixed term of incarceration
Is favorable because it increases efficiency
House Arrest

29. A condition of probation in which the offender repays society or the victim of crime for the trouble the offender caused.
The right to compel witnesses via subpoena
Grand Jury
Restitution
Maximum-Security

30. Evidentiary Standard
At least four justices have to agree that it should be heard by the Supreme Court and a writ of certiorari must be filed with the Supreme Court
For criminal trials - the evidentairy standard is proof beyond a reasonable doubt
The procedural criminal law
Penitentiary House

31. Indeterminate Sentencing
Most widely used type of sentence - goal is to indivdualize punishment
The search of abandoned property - the search of an open field - the fly-over search of property
About 20% and most police departments require at least an associates degree
Community Service Restitution

32. The PRIMARY work of state law enforcement agencies involve...
Highway Patrol
90%
When a jury member is challenged for no reason
Judge should excuse himself or herself in there is a conflict of interest

33. An investigation performed by a probation officer attached to a trial court after the conviction of a defendent.
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons
Unresolved personality conflicts in early childhood
Pre-Sentence Investigation
Shock Incarceration

34. What is Duress?
Parole
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
Fine
The right to compel witnesses via subpoena

35. Motion for a direct verdict
Judge directs jury to acquit the defendant because the prosecution has fail to prove the elements of the crime according to legal standards
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors
Self-defense and insanity
Young males - unemployed or low income - prior criminal record or history

36. An example of the criminal defense of EXCUSE is...
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification
Insanity - battared woman syndrome - status as a juvenile
Defines what is criminal behavior and appropriate punishments
6 person jury is required by law jury must come to unanminous verdit

37. What did the BAIL REFORM ACT of 1984 establish?
Jail
6 person jury is required by law jury must come to unanminous verdit
Self-defense and insanity
PRESUMPTION of DETENTION to limit the release of suspects on bail

38. About how many people are in prisons in the US?
1. prison farms and camps; 2. Shock Incarations; 3. Community correctional facilities; 4. Private prisons
Obstacle course
1.4 million
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture

39. Miranda Rights...
1. Probability of error; 2. Unfair use of discretion; 3. Misplaced vengeance; 4. Weak public support; 5. Little deterrent effect; 6. Race/Gender biases; 7. Brutal; 8. Expensive
Pennsylvania System
Parole
Miranda Waivers are particularly relevent to juveniles

40. Levying a money payment on offenders to compensate society for their misdeeds
Fine
Summer
Sentence served simultaneously
Trial by a judge without jury

41. Verdict
Should be whether the defendent has sufficient present ability to consult with defendents lawyers and defend one's self
Shock Incarceration
Higher
1. guilty; 2. not guilty; 3. hung jury

42. Conditions or restriction mandated by the court that must be obeyed by a probationer
1. prison farms and camps; 2. Shock Incarations; 3. Community correctional facilities; 4. Private prisons
Pennsylvania System
Police training - fingerprinting - and polygraph tests
Probation Rules

43. Models of sentencing
Subpoena
1. determinate; 2. mandatory; 3. interminate
The right to compel witnesses via subpoena
A crime that is considered especially immoral

44. The investigation of the murder of a postal worker would fall within the jurisdiction of...
Trial by a judge without jury
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
Judge directs jury to acquit the defendant because the prosecution has fail to prove the elements of the crime according to legal standards
The FBI

45. Right to an impartial judge
Day Fees
Higher
Certainty of punishment - swiftness of punishment - punishment that is proportional to the severity of the crime
Judge should excuse himself or herself in there is a conflict of interest

46. A person can challenge a guilty plea by...
Claiming he/she did not have effective counsul - claiming the plea was not made voluntarily and claiming that the prosecuter did not keep his/her promises made in the agreement
1. determinate; 2. mandatory; 3. interminate
Determined by judge -statutory requirements and jury recommendation
Accountability of private police to legal standards of policing and equity in treatment of rich and poor areas

47. Problems of Parole
Targets low level quality of life crimes to eliminate disorder in the community
Probation
All evidence that is obtained illegally must be thrown out from the use at trial
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits

48. Civil right that include the right of inmates to receive mail and medical benefits and to practice their religion.
Lengthy prison term for 3rd felony offense even if it is a minor offense
Substantive Rights
Established that juveniles should be rehabilitated not punished and that children should not be treated as adults
When a jury member is challenged for no reason

49. Goals of Punishment
Self-defense and insanity
Judge directs jury to acquit the defendant because the prosecution has fail to prove the elements of the crime according to legal standards
Illegally obtained confessions - cruel and unusual punishment and an impartial jury
1. General Deterrence; 2. Specific Deterrence; 3. Incapaition; 4. Rehab; 5. Restitution

50. Common concerns with the privatization of policing includes...
Highway Patrol
Jail
Judge directs jury to acquit the defendant because the prosecution has fail to prove the elements of the crime according to legal standards
Accountability of private police to legal standards of policing and equity in treatment of rich and poor areas

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