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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A program requiring probationers to pay in part for the costs of their treatment.






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






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






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






5. The sentence






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






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






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






9. According to the Supreme Court - the following activities would not violate individual protections against illegal seasrch and seizure...






10. Jury Selection

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11. 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






12. Duties of probation officers






13. In the common law - a crime that is considered mala in se is...






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






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






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






17. Right to compulsory process






18. How confidential are juvenile records kept?






19. 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.






20. What time of year are crime rates in the U.S. the highest?






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






22. The substantive criminal law...






23. Establishes the practices and processes of the criminal law






24. 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.






25. Broken window policing is a strategy in which police officer...






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






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






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






29. A view of criminal justice that focuses on crime as an act against the community rather than the state






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






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






32. Concurrent Sentence






33. Evidentiary Standard






34. Determinate Sentencing






35. The 5th amendment protects citizens from...






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






37. A defendent who lacks the funds to hire a private attorney and is therefore entitled to free counsel.






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






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






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






41. A person can challenge a guilty plea by...






42. Bench Trial






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






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






45. An investigation performed by a probation officer attached to a trial court after the conviction of a defendent.






46. 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.






47. According to social reaction/labeling theory - some young people become criminals because...






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






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






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