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Criminal Justice

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1. 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.
Can earn 10 to 15 days per month and sentence reduction
Public Defender
Anger Managment
The accused must be brought to trial within 100 days of being arrested

2. The substantive criminal law...
Defines what is criminal behavior and appropriate punishments
Should treat people of different classes equitably
Televised coverage is not permitted in federal courts
Super Maximum-Security Prison

3. Three Strikes Law
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors
1.4 million
Lengthy prison term for 3rd felony offense even if it is a minor offense
Increasing

4. What is the criteria to determine whether someone is entitled to jury trial?
15 states allow the prosecutor to decide
Work Release
1. Probability of error; 2. Unfair use of discretion; 3. Misplaced vengeance; 4. Weak public support; 5. Little deterrent effect; 6. Race/Gender biases; 7. Brutal; 8. Expensive
If the punishment is 6 months in prisonment or more

5. Right to be competent at trail

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6. Problems of Parole
1. Large numbers of re-entering inmates; 2. Legal prohibition on kinds of employment; 3. Limits on obtaining licenses; 4. Restriction on freedom of movment
The local police
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits
Minimum-Security Prison

7. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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8. A condition of probation in which the offender repays society or the victim of crime for the trouble the offender caused.
Collecting taxes and supervising elections
Restitution
All evidence that is obtained illegally must be thrown out from the use at trial
Assembly line

9. A program requiring probationers to pay in part for the costs of their treatment.
Committed an act in violation of the penal code
Day Fees
Diversion
Is favorable because it increases efficiency

10. Problem of Re-entry
1. Large numbers of re-entering inmates; 2. Legal prohibition on kinds of employment; 3. Limits on obtaining licenses; 4. Restriction on freedom of movment
Targets low level quality of life crimes to eliminate disorder in the community
Property crimes
Enter a plea

11. 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.
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
Summer
Community Service Restitution
At least four justices have to agree that it should be heard by the Supreme Court and a writ of certiorari must be filed with the Supreme Court

12. What do police officers spend most of their time on patrol doing?
Responding to calls of service not chasing down criminals or making arrests
Work Release
Society expects them to be criminals
Diversion

13. Common concerns with the privatization of policing includes...
$200 billion
The FBI
Society expects them to be criminals
Accountability of private police to legal standards of policing and equity in treatment of rich and poor areas

14. About how many people are in prisons in the US?
1.4 million
Selected random from tax records - Driver's Liscence records and voter registration
Recoupment
Boot Camp

15. Packer describes the due process model of the criminal justice system operating like an...
The accused must be brought to trial within 100 days of being arrested
Went down steadily
$200 billion
Obstacle course

16. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?
1. Impartial Judge; 2. Competent to Stand Trial; 3. Confront Witnesses; 4. Compulsory Process; 5. Impartial Jury; 6. Counsul; 7. Speedy Trial; 8. Public Trial
Public Defender
Day Fees
Summer

17. 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
Jail
Anger Managment
Shock Probation
Grand Jury

18. From 1995 to 2005 - the crime rate in the U.S...
Went down steadily
Young - male - minority - poor
House Arrest
Pennsylvania System

19. Concurrent Jursidiction
The views of powerful elites in society
Diversion
Pre-Sentence Investigation
15 states allow the prosecutor to decide

20. The process in which a probation officer settles cases at the initial appearance before the onset of formal criminal proceeding.
Restorative Justice
Intake
The procedural criminal law
Defense Attorney

21. A correctional policy that allow inates to leave the institution for vocational or educational training - for employment - or to maintain famly ties.
Intake
Furlough
Established that juveniles should be rehabilitated not punished and that children should not be treated as adults
There were too many police errors to trust the police evidence

22. A community-based correctional facility that houses inmates before their outright released so that they can become gradually acclimatd to conventional society.
Established that juveniles should be rehabilitated not punished and that children should not be treated as adults
Halfway House
Accountability of private police to legal standards of policing and equity in treatment of rich and poor areas
7 Million Americans

23. A sentence entailing the conditional release of a convicted offender into the community under the supervision of the court
1. Jury Selection; 2. Opening Statement; 3. Prosecution Case; 4. Motion for Directed Verdict; 5. Closing Argument; 6. Direction to Jury; 7. Verdict; 8. Sentence; 9. Appeal
Probation
Super Maximum-Security Prison
Increasing

24. 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...
nolle prosequi
Social agent
It has been long routine in penal instutitions; there are 123 rape victims per 1000 inmates. According to inmates prison staff commit more crimes then other inmates
Test for one's competents to stand trial

25. Right to speedy trial
1. First time offender; 2. Non-violent or status offender; 3. Alcahol or drug problem
The search of abandoned property - the search of an open field - the fly-over search of property
The accused must be brought to trial within 100 days of being arrested
The procedural criminal law

26. What percentage of police departments require officers to have a college degree?
Test for one's competents to stand trial
About 20% and most police departments require at least an associates degree
Self-defense and insanity
1. Incapactation; 2. Deterrence; 3. Moral 'an eye for an eye'; 4. Proportionality; 5. Public Opinion; 6. Low chance of error

27. 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
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
16
1. Incapactation; 2. Deterrence; 3. Moral 'an eye for an eye'; 4. Proportionality; 5. Public Opinion; 6. Low chance of error
Went down steadily

28. Trial Process
1. Jury Selection; 2. Opening Statement; 3. Prosecution Case; 4. Motion for Directed Verdict; 5. Closing Argument; 6. Direction to Jury; 7. Verdict; 8. Sentence; 9. Appeal
Grand Jury
Pennsylvania System
1. First time offender; 2. Non-violent or status offender; 3. Alcahol or drug problem

29. A sentence in which offenders serve a short prison term before they begin probation - to impress them with the pain of imprisonment.
They frequently mistake the indentity of suspects
The search of abandoned property - the search of an open field - the fly-over search of property
1. Concurrent Jurisdiction; 2. Statutory Jurisdiction; 3. Judicial Waiver
Shock Probation

30. What was significant about the Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899?
If juror might be biased; if juror has knowledge of case; if unable to be impartial
Boot Camp
Established that juveniles should be rehabilitated not punished and that children should not be treated as adults
Intermediate Sanctions

31. Truth in Sentencing
Were considered highly educated in their time period
Inmate must serve at least 85% of sentence imposed by court
Young - male - minority - poor
Forfeiture

32. The Conflict View of criminal definitions assumes that criminal law expresses...
Lengthy prison term for 3rd felony offense even if it is a minor offense
Minimum-Security Prison
The views of powerful elites in society
An example of the criminal defense of Justification

33. 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.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Super Maximum-Security Prison
Parole
Increasing

34. In colonial America - the county sheriff's job included...
Halfway House
Targets low level quality of life crimes to eliminate disorder in the community
Probation
Collecting taxes and supervising elections

35. What time of year are crime rates in the U.S. the highest?
Established customs and traditions
7 Million Americans
Commonly classified as Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) or Children in Need of Supervision (CHINS)
Summer

36. According to Beccaria - the three criteria required for deterrence to work ainclude...
Certainty of punishment - swiftness of punishment - punishment that is proportional to the severity of the crime
Subpoena
Illegally obtained confessions - cruel and unusual punishment and an impartial jury
Self-defense and insanity

37. Challenged for cause
Prison
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons
If juror might be biased; if juror has knowledge of case; if unable to be impartial
Assembly line

38. A prison system - developed in Pennsylvania during the nineteeth centry - based on total isolation and individual pentence.
15 states allow the prosecutor to decide
Pennsylvania System
Anger Managment
Statutory requirement - limits judges power

39. The use of an alternative to trial - such as referral to treament or employment programs.
Probation Rules
Diversion
Pre-Sentence Investigation
1. Incapactation; 2. Deterrence; 3. Moral 'an eye for an eye'; 4. Proportionality; 5. Public Opinion; 6. Low chance of error

40. Jury Selection

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41. Who has a better record of defending clients; private or public attorneys?
Private attorneys
Property crimes
If juror might be biased; if juror has knowledge of case; if unable to be impartial
Insanity - battared woman syndrome - status as a juvenile

42. According to Sampson and Laub's age-graded theory of crime - a developmental theory - the following points are associated with reduced recidivism...
Marriage
Self-defense and insanity
Defense Attorney
They frequently mistake the indentity of suspects

43. A short prison sentence served in boot camp-type facilities
Shock Incarceration
Boot Camp
Work Release
1. Investigate; 2. Intake; 3. Diagnosis; 4. Supervision; Risk Classification

44. Status Offenders
Diversion
Most widely used type of sentence - goal is to indivdualize punishment
Commonly classified as Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) or Children in Need of Supervision (CHINS)
The death penalty only applies to first degree murder and only when aggravating circumstances are present

45. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?
Pre-Sentence Investigation
1. Concurrent Jurisdiction; 2. Statutory Jurisdiction; 3. Judicial Waiver
Supreme court has established that criminal trials must remain public
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors

46. About how many Americans are under some form of correctional supervision?
7 Million Americans
Maximum-Security
Pennsylvania System
1. guilty; 2. not guilty; 3. hung jury

47. Determinate Sentencing
Community Service Restitution
A fixed term of incarceration
Public Defender
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48. Legal counsel for the defendant in a criminal case - representing to final appeal.
Shock Probation
Unresolved personality conflicts in early childhood
Defense Attorney
Boot Camp

49. The sizure of personal property by the state as a civil or criminal penalty.
Forfeiture
Self-defense and insanity
Public Defender
A fixed term of incarceration

50. Miranda Rights...
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
Miranda Waivers are particularly relevent to juveniles
The local police
Highway Patrol