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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Women Imprisoned






2. Mandatory Sentence






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






4. 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.






5. The Supreme Court descison on NO EXCEPTIONS said that...






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






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






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






9. The substantive criminal law...






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






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






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






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






14. The PRIMARY work of state law enforcement agencies involve...






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






16. Delinquents






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






18. Capital Punishment






19. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






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






21. A prison treatment program that allows inmates to be released during the day to work in the community and return to prison at night.






22. The 5th amendment protects citizens from...






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. Determinate Sentencing






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






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






31. The federal agency responsible for the witness protection program and fugitive investigations is...






32. A prison system - developed in New York during the nineteenth centry - based on congregate work during the day and seperaton at night.






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






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






35. Concurrent Jursidiction






36. Establishes the practices and processes of the criminal law






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






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






39. According to social reaction/labeling theory - some young people become criminals because...






40. Right to confront witnesses






41. 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...






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






43. Peremptory Challenge






44. A short prison sentence served in boot camp-type facilities






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






46. A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes






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






48. How confidential are juvenile records kept?






49. Challenged for cause






50. Evidentiary Standard