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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. Is female involvement in violent crime increasing or decreasing?






2. Peremptory Challenge






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






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






5. The average officers makes how many felony arrests per month?






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






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






8. Establishes the practices and processes of the criminal law






9. Models of sentencing






10. Duties of probation officers






11. Women Imprisoned






12. Status Offenders






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






14. Are arrest rates of drug-related crime higher or lower then they were in the 1970's?






15. A correctional institution that houses dangerous felons and maintains strict security measure - high walls - and limited contact with the outside world.






16. Miranda Rights...






17. Probation failure correlates to...






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






19. Right to compulsory process






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






21. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






22. The substantive criminal law...






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






24. 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






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






26. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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27. Good time






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






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






30. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






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






32. The majority of criminal cases in the U.S are investigated by...






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






34. Right to speedy trial






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






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






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






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






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






40. Right to confront witnesses






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






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






43. Three Strikes Law






44. Concurrent Sentence






45. What are characteristics of inmates






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






47. Truth in Sentencing






48. What is the common criteria for juveniles to be diverted to community programs?






49. A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes






50. The sentence