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Criminal Justice

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1. Right to an impartial judge
Judge should excuse himself or herself in there is a conflict of interest
1. guilty; 2. not guilty; 3. hung jury
Can earn 10 to 15 days per month and sentence reduction
Restorative Justice

2. What is Duress?
Shock Probation
Restitution
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
Halfway House

3. What are the three systems to transfer juveniles to adult court?
Most are in minimum security and are less violent
Defines what is criminal behavior and appropriate punishments
Highway Patrol
1. Concurrent Jurisdiction; 2. Statutory Jurisdiction; 3. Judicial Waiver

4. A state of federal correctional institution for incarceration of felony offenders for term of one year or more.
Probation
Substantive Rights
Indigent Defendant
Prison

5. NCVS crime statistics are likely to be better then the UCR crimes statistics in...
Went down steadily
6 person jury is required by law jury must come to unanminous verdit
Counting the number of rapes in the U.S.
If the officer supects that the person carrying weapons

6. Right to be competent at trail

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7. An investigation performed by a probation officer attached to a trial court after the conviction of a defendent.
Pre-Sentence Investigation
If the punishment is 6 months in prisonment or more
Subpoena
Recoupment

8. About how much does the U.S. spend on the criminal justice system every year?
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors
$200 billion
A fixed term of incarceration
Day Fees

9. Packer describes the due process model of the criminal justice system operating like an...
Forfeiture
Obstacle course
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits
1.4 million

10. Problems of Parole
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits
Pennsylvania System
Enter a plea
For criminal trials - the evidentairy standard is proof beyond a reasonable doubt

11. A correctional institution that houses dangerous felons and maintains strict security measure - high walls - and limited contact with the outside world.
Collecting taxes and supervising elections
29 states automatically exclude some offenses from juvenile court (EX. Rape/Murder)
The U.S. Marshall
Maximum-Security

12. 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.
Community Service Restitution
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Whent he punishment of one offender deters others
Work Release

13. A defendent who lacks the funds to hire a private attorney and is therefore entitled to free counsel.
Indigent Defendant
Young - male - minority - poor
Most are in minimum security and are less violent
Most widely used type of sentence - goal is to indivdualize punishment

14. Trial Process
Subpoena
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
29 states automatically exclude some offenses from juvenile court (EX. Rape/Murder)
Shock Incarceration

15. What was significant about the Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899?
Accountability of private police to legal standards of policing and equity in treatment of rich and poor areas
The FBI
The search of abandoned property - the search of an open field - the fly-over search of property
Established that juveniles should be rehabilitated not punished and that children should not be treated as adults

16. Who has a better record of defending clients; private or public attorneys?
Diversion
Private attorneys
1. determinate; 2. mandatory; 3. interminate
Work Release

17. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?
Intake
Property crimes
The right to compel witnesses via subpoena
Unreported crimes - police corruption - police errors

18. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?
Test for one's competents to stand trial
A crime that is considered especially immoral
Pre-Sentence Investigation
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture

19. Competent Standard

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20. 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.
The right to compel witnesses via subpoena
Anger Managment
Defines what is criminal behavior and appropriate punishments
Should treat people of different classes equitably

21. Motion for a direct verdict
Increasing
Judge directs jury to acquit the defendant because the prosecution has fail to prove the elements of the crime according to legal standards
Recoupment
7 Million Americans

22. The least secure institution that houses white-colar and nonviolent offenders - maintains few security measures - and has liberal furlough and visitation policies.
1. personal deficits; 2. social deficit; 3. Economic deficits; 4. Marriage and family deficits
1. Concurrent Jurisdiction; 2. Statutory Jurisdiction; 3. Judicial Waiver
Minimum-Security Prison
Enter a plea

23. According to Sampson and Laub's age-graded theory of crime - a developmental theory - the following points are associated with reduced recidivism...
Work Release
Were considered highly educated in their time period
Marriage
Intermediate Sanctions

24. Are tv camara's aloud in federal court?
Determined by judge -statutory requirements and jury recommendation
Highway Patrol
Is favorable because it increases efficiency
Televised coverage is not permitted in federal courts

25. Is female involvement in violent crime increasing or decreasing?
Young males - unemployed or low income - prior criminal record or history
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Increasing
Fine

26. What is the criteria to determine whether someone is entitled to jury trial?
A fixed term of incarceration
Collecting taxes and supervising elections
If the punishment is 6 months in prisonment or more
Intake

27. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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28. Right to an impartial jury
Whent he punishment of one offender deters others
7 Million Americans
They frequently mistake the indentity of suspects
6 person jury is required by law jury must come to unanminous verdit

29. 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.
Grand Jury
Probation
Young males - unemployed or low income - prior criminal record or history
Accountability of private police to legal standards of policing and equity in treatment of rich and poor areas

30. Right to confront witnesses
Shock Probation
Unresolved personality conflicts in early childhood
Went down steadily
Guaranteed by the 6th amendment.

31. Status Offenders
Commonly classified as Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) or Children in Need of Supervision (CHINS)
New York (Auburn) System
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
1. determinate; 2. mandatory; 3. interminate

32. Legal counsel for the defendant in a criminal case - representing to final appeal.
Defines what is criminal behavior and appropriate punishments
Should treat people of different classes equitably
Defense Attorney
Tend to be in opposition to mainstream cultural values

33. Conditions or restriction mandated by the court that must be obeyed by a probationer
Probation Rules
Selected random from tax records - Driver's Liscence records and voter registration
Police training - fingerprinting - and polygraph tests
All evidence that is obtained illegally must be thrown out from the use at trial

34. According to Beccaria - the three criteria required for deterrence to work ainclude...
Tend to be in opposition to mainstream cultural values
Certainty of punishment - swiftness of punishment - punishment that is proportional to the severity of the crime
Were considered highly educated in their time period
Private attorneys

35. A person can challenge a guilty plea by...
1. First time offender; 2. Non-violent or status offender; 3. Alcahol or drug problem
New York (Auburn) System
Claiming he/she did not have effective counsul - claiming the plea was not made voluntarily and claiming that the prosecuter did not keep his/her promises made in the agreement
Restitution

36. Are Jury trial common in the U.S.?
The accused must be brought to trial within 100 days of being arrested
No - jury trials are NOT very common in the U.S.
Day Fees
1. prison farms and camps; 2. Shock Incarations; 3. Community correctional facilities; 4. Private prisons

37. During the araignment phase of the court process - defendants...
Accountability of private police to legal standards of policing and equity in treatment of rich and poor areas
Defines what is criminal behavior and appropriate punishments
Enter a plea
Whent he punishment of one offender deters others

38. An example of the criminal defense of justifaction is...
Super Maximum-Security Prison
Is favorable because it increases efficiency
Self-defense and insanity
Make-believe family

39. What time of year are crime rates in the U.S. the highest?
Loyalty is a critical component of the police subculture
Summer
Guaranteed by the 6th amendment.
If the punishment is 6 months in prisonment or more

40. The peak age for invovlment in violent crimes in the U.S. is...
Grand Jury
Shock Probation
If the punishment is 6 months in prisonment or more
18

41. Packer describes the crime models criminal justice system operating like an...
The place and its charecteristics
The procedural criminal law
Minimum-Security Prison
Assembly line

42. A short term militaristic correctional facility in which inmates undergo intensive physical conditioning and discipline.
Boot Camp
About 20% and most police departments require at least an associates degree
Selected random from tax records - Driver's Liscence records and voter registration
7 Million Americans

43. Problem of Re-entry
Society expects them to be criminals
Lengthy prison term for 3rd felony offense even if it is a minor offense
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
Recoupment

44. Levying a money payment on offenders to compensate society for their misdeeds
Probation Rules
Police training - fingerprinting - and polygraph tests
Statutory requirement - limits judges power
Fine

45. What are characteristics of inmates
Young - male - minority - poor
Trial by a judge without jury
Diversion
Guaranteed by the 6th amendment.

46. Mandatory Sentence
Statutory requirement - limits judges power
Commonly classified as Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) or Children in Need of Supervision (CHINS)
29 states automatically exclude some offenses from juvenile court (EX. Rape/Murder)
Recoupment

47. According to choice theories of crime (classical school) - humans are'
Televised coverage is not permitted in federal courts
Rational - self- intersted and hedonistic
Increasing
45 states have provisions that allow judges to transer cases to the adult court room

48. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?
Young - male - minority - poor
About 10 felony arrests per month
Illegally obtained confessions - cruel and unusual punishment and an impartial jury
Self-defense and insanity

49. The decision by a prosecuttor to drop a case after a complaint has been made because of - for examples - insufficatient edvidence.
Recoupment
nolle prosequi
Young - male - minority - poor
15 states allow the prosecutor to decide

50. Statutory Jurisdiction
Marriage
Self-defense and insanity
An example of the criminal defense of Justification
29 states automatically exclude some offenses from juvenile court (EX. Rape/Murder)