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Criminal Justice

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






2. Mens reas is important in determining if a person can be held criminally responsible and refers specifically to...






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






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






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






6. Good time






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






8. Miranda Rights...






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






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






11. Peremptory Challenge






12. Factors that Influence Sentencing






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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






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






20. Consecutive sentence






21. 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.






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






23. Probation failure correlates to...






24. Problems of Parole






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






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






27. Alternative Correctional Institution






28. How confidential are juvenile records kept?






29. 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.






30. Delinquents






31. Stare decisis refers to the concept that legal decisions should be based on...






32. According to Packer's due process model of criminal justice - plea bargaining...






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






39. About how many Americans are under some form of correctional supervision?






40. Problem of Re-entry






41. The sentence






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. Indeterminate Sentencing






48. Mandatory Sentence






49. Legal counsel for the defendant in a criminal case - representing to final appeal.






50. Argument against the Death Penalty