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Criminal Justice

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






2. Judicial Waiver






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






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






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






6. Levying a money payment on offenders to compensate society for their misdeeds






7. The peak age for involvement in property crimes in the U.S is...






8. Indeterminate Sentencing






9. The majority of criminal cases in the U.S are investigated by...






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






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






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






13. Right to an impartial judge






14. 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.






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






16. What is the common criteria for juveniles to be diverted to community programs?






17. Delinquents






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






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






20. Peremptory Challenge






21. Probation failure correlates to...






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






27. Right to speedy trial






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






29. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






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






31. Right to confront witnesses






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






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






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






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






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






37. Right to public trial






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. Civil right that include the right of inmates to receive mail and medical benefits and to practice their religion.






44. A short term militaristic correctional facility in which inmates undergo intensive physical conditioning and discipline.






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






46. Duties of probation officers






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






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






49. What is General Deterrence?






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