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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Problems of Parole






2. Right to speedy trial






3. Establishes the practices and processes of the criminal law






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






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






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






7. Right to be competent at trail

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8. Packer describes the crime models criminal justice system operating like an...






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






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






11. The substantive criminal law...






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






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






14. What is General Deterrence?






15. Miranda Rights...






16. Indeterminate Sentencing






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






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. Right to counsel






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






21. A view of criminal justice that focuses on crime as an act against the community rather than the state






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






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






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






25. Good time






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






27. Are tv camara's aloud in federal court?






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






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






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






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






32. Bench Trial






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






34. Evidentiary Standard






35. Common concerns with the privatization of policing includes...






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






37. An argument in favor of the O.J. trial is likely to point to the fact that...






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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






42. Peremptory Challenge






43. What was significant about the Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899?






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






45. Sir Robert Peel believed that police officers should...






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






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






48. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






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






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