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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Common concerns with the privatization of policing includes...






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






3. According to Freud's psychological theory - deviant behavior is the result of...






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






5. Concurrent Jursidiction






6. An attorney employed by the government to represent criminal defenders who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer.






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






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






9. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?






10. 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.






11. A prison treatment program that allows inmates to be released during the day to work in the community and return to prison at night.






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






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






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






15. Motion for a direct verdict






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






17. Concurrent Sentence






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






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






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






21. What is Duress?






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






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






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






25. The decision by a prosecuttor to drop a case after a complaint has been made because of - for examples - insufficatient edvidence.






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






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






28. Factors that Influence Sentencing






29. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






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






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






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






33. The early release of a prisoner from imprisonment subject to conditions set by correctional authorites.






34. 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.






35. The officers of the London Metropolitan Police...






36. 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...






37. A short prison sentence served in boot camp-type facilities






38. Problems of Parole






39. Right to an impartial judge






40. A program requiring probationers to pay in part for the costs of their treatment.






41. Right to public trial






42. According to Shaw and McKay's social disorganization theory - crime rates in a geographic area can be explained by...






43. 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






44. Mandatory Sentence






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






46. Challenged for cause






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






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






49. In order for a case to be heard by the Supreme Court...






50. Establishes the practices and processes of the criminal law