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Criminal Justice

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






2. Miranda Rights...






3. Models of sentencing






4. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






5. Conditions or restriction mandated by the court that must be obeyed by a probationer






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






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






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






9. What are characteristics of inmates






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






11. Some of the policing reforms that August Vollmer proposed include...






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






13. Mandatory Sentence






14. Challenged for cause






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. Delinquents






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






21. A state of federal correctional institution for incarceration of felony offenders for term of one year or more.






22. A court order requiring a witness to appear in court at a specified time and place.






23. 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...






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






25. Packer describes the due process model of the criminal justice system operating like an...






26. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






27. The officers of the London Metropolitan Police...






28. Right to an impartial jury






29. The newest form of a maximum-security prison that uses high-level securtity mesasure to incapacitate the nation's most dangerous criminals. Most inmates are in lockdown 23 hours per day.






30. 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






31. Three Strikes Law






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






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






34. Right to counsel






35. Concurrent Jursidiction






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






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






38. An example of the criminal defense of justifaction is...






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






40. Bench Trial






41. About how much does the U.S. spend on the criminal justice system every year?






42. Capital Punishment






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






44. Concurrent Sentence






45. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?






46. 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






47. A group of citizens chosen to hear charges against persons accused of crime and to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to bring the person to trial.






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






49. In colonial America - the county sheriff's job included...






50. 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.