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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Concurrent Jursidiction






2. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






3. Argument against the Death Penalty






4. 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.






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






6. Determinate Sentencing






7. What is Duress?






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






9. Miranda Rights...






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






11. Probation failure correlates to...






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






13. Which is more common - violent crimes or property crimes?






14. Trial Process






15. Right to an impartial judge






16. A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes






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






18. 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.






19. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






20. How many percent of criminal defendents are considered indigent?






21. Delinquents






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






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






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






25. Good time






26. What are characteristics of inmates






27. Factors that Influence Sentencing






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






29. In the common law - a crime that is considered mala in se is...






30. 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.






31. According to the stop and frisk rule - established by the Terry vs Ohio case a police officer may stop and frisk a person...






32. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Challenged for cause






42. Peremptory Challenge






43. Women Imprisoned






44. 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






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






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






47. Truth in Sentencing






48. Mandatory Sentence






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






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