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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Broken window policing is a strategy in which police officer...






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






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






4. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






5. What are characteristics of inmates






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






7. Concurrent Sentence






8. 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.






9. What is General Deterrence?






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






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






12. An attorney employed by the government to represent criminal defenders who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer.






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






14. Who has a better record of defending clients; private or public attorneys?






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






16. Challenged for cause






17. Peremptory Challenge






18. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion






19. A sentence in which offenders serve a short prison term before they begin probation - to impress them with the pain of imprisonment.






20. What is Duress?






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






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






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






24. Right to an impartial jury






25. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






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






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






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






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






30. Establishes the practices and processes of the criminal law






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






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






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






34. Motion for a direct verdict






35. Competent Standard

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36. Indeterminate Sentencing






37. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






38. 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






39. What are the three systems to transfer juveniles to adult court?






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. Capital Punishment






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






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






47. Argument against the Death Penalty






48. Right to be competent at trail

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49. According to the Supreme Court - the following activities would not violate individual protections against illegal seasrch and seizure...






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