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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. A program requiring probationers to pay in part for the costs of their treatment.






2. Mandatory Sentence






3. What did the BAIL REFORM ACT of 1984 establish?






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






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






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






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






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






9. Consecutive sentence






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






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






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






13. According to choice theories of crime (classical school) - humans are'






14. What are characteristics of inmates






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






16. Right to compulsory process






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






18. Duties of probation officers






19. Right to an impartial judge






20. Right to public trial






21. Three Strikes Law






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






23. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion






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






25. Packer describes the crime models criminal justice system operating like an...






26. Judicial Waiver






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






28. 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.






29. Capital Punishment






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






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






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






33. NCVS crime statistics are likely to be better then the UCR crimes statistics in...






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






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






36. Peremptory Challenge






37. Competent Standard

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38. 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.






39. Trial Process






40. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?






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






42. The peak age for invovlment in violent crimes in the U.S. is...






43. Indeterminate Sentencing






44. Argument against the Death Penalty






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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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.






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