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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. About how many Americans are under some form of correctional supervision?






2. Status Offenders






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






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






5. The peak age for involvement in property crimes in the U.S is...






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






7. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






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






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






10. The substantive criminal law...






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






12. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






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






14. Right to compulsory process






15. According to Beccaria - the three criteria required for deterrence to work ainclude...






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






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






18. An example of the criminal defense of EXCUSE is...






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. The 5th amendment protects citizens from...






24. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






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






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






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






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






29. Factors that Influence Sentencing






30. 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.






31. Delinquents






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






33. A community-based correctional facility that houses inmates before their outright released so that they can become gradually acclimatd to conventional society.






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






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






36. How confidential are juvenile records kept?






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






38. 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






39. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion






40. Right to be competent at trail

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






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






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






44. Problem of Re-entry






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






46. 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.






47. The initial reaction in prison is usually...






48. An administrative act performed by a parole authority that remove a person from parole -or a judicial orded by a court removing a person from parole or probation - in response to a violation on the part of the parolee.






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






50. Some of the policing reforms that August Vollmer proposed include...