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Criminal Justice

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






2. Three Strikes Law






3. Women Imprisoned






4. Judicial Waiver






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






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






7. Bench Trial






8. Argument against the Death Penalty






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






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






11. Models of sentencing






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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






17. Factors that Influence Sentencing






18. 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.






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






20. The early release of a prisoner from imprisonment subject to conditions set by correctional authorites.






21. Evidentiary Standard






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






23. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion






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






25. Right to speedy trial






26. What is General Deterrence?






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. Jury Selection

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






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






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






35. Probation failure correlates to...






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






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






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






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






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






41. The process in which a probation officer settles cases at the initial appearance before the onset of formal criminal proceeding.






42. Good time






43. The Supreme Court descison on NO EXCEPTIONS said that...






44. Goals of Punishment






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






46. What percentage of police departments require officers to have a college degree?






47. A short term militaristic correctional facility in which inmates undergo intensive physical conditioning and discipline.






48. What is the criteria to determine whether someone is entitled to jury trial?






49. What is one problem with eye-witnesses?






50. How confidential are juvenile records kept?