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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. Status Offenders






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






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






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






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






6. Jury Selection

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7. Three Strikes Law






8. Right to an impartial jury






9. 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.






10. Mandatory Sentence






11. 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






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






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






14. Determinate Sentencing






15. Right to an impartial judge






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






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






18. Concurrent Jursidiction






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






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






21. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?






22. Good time






23. Indeterminate Sentencing






24. How confidential are juvenile records kept?






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






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






27. Problems of Parole






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






29. From 1995 to 2005 - the crime rate in the U.S...






30. 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.






31. About how many people are in prisons in the US?






32. What is Duress?






33. Alternative Correctional Institution






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






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






36. The initial reaction in prison is usually...






37. Concurrent Sentence






38. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






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






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






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






42. The substantive criminal law...






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






44. What are characteristics of inmates






45. Right to be competent at trail

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






47. Judicial Waiver






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






49. Delinquents






50. Miranda Rights...







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