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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Goals of Punishment






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






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






4. Right to be competent at trail

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






6. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion






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






8. Miranda Rights...






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






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






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






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






13. The group of punishment falling between probation and prison. Community-based sanction - including house arrest and intensive supervision - serve as alternatives to incarceration.






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






15. Problems of Parole






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






17. Right to public trial






18. Truth in Sentencing






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






20. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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






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






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






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






25. Determinate Sentencing






26. Challenged for cause






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






28. Right to compulsory process






29. 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






30. Concurrent Sentence






31. Good time






32. Women Imprisoned






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Problem of Re-entry






41. The attempt by correctional agencies to maintain convicted offenders in the community instead of a secure facilty it includes probation - parole and residential programs.






42. Statutory Jurisdiction






43. Alternative Correctional Institution






44. Common concerns with the privatization of policing includes...






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






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






47. Right to confront witnesses






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






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






50. Sir Robert Peel believed that police officers should...