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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. What is the common criteria for juveniles to be diverted to community programs?






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






3. 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.






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






5. Probation failure correlates to...






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






7. The sentence






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






9. Right to counsel






10. Delinquents






11. 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.






12. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






13. Verdict






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






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






16. 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.






17. Evidentiary Standard






18. Trial Process






19. What is General Deterrence?






20. Right to an impartial judge






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. According to choice theories of crime (classical school) - humans are'






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






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






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






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






32. In order for a case to be heard by the Supreme Court...






33. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






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






35. Bench Trial






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






37. A correctional institution that houses dangerous felons and maintains strict security measure - high walls - and limited contact with the outside world.






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






39. A place to detain people awaiting trial - to serve as a lockup for drunks and disorderly individuals - and to confine convicted misdemeanants serving sentences of less then ten






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






41. 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.






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






43. Determinate Sentencing






44. Argument against the Death Penalty






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






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






47. What is Duress?






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






49. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion






50. Three Strikes Law