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Criminal Justice

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






2. Consecutive sentence






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






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 sentence






6. Delinquents






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






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






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






10. What is General Deterrence?






11. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?






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






13. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






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






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. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?






17. Duties of probation officers






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






19. 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






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






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






22. Who has a better record of defending clients; private or public attorneys?






23. Verdict






24. The policing style associated with police officers belief that it is his duty to be a first line responder to various problems in the community is...






25. Right to public trial






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






27. Probation failure correlates to...






28. Right to speedy trial






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. Arguments for the Death Penalty


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






37. Trial Process






38. Evidentiary Standard






39. 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.






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






41. Judicial Waiver






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






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






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






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






46. Argument against the Death Penalty






47. Good time






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






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






50. Goals of Punishment