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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
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1. In female prisons - substitute family groups with a faux father - mother and siblings.






2. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?






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






4. Evidentiary Standard






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






6. Capital Punishment






7. Concurrent Sentence






8. Determinate Sentencing






9. Jury Selection

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10. Challenged for cause






11. NCVS crime statistics are likely to be better then the UCR crimes statistics in...






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






13. Right to public trial






14. Alternative Correctional Institution






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






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






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






18. What are considered problems with UCR statistics?






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






20. Competent Standard

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






22. What did the BAIL REFORM ACT of 1984 establish?






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






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






25. Levying a money payment on offenders to compensate society for their misdeeds






26. 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.






27. Why are investigations of police misconduct tricky?






28. Goals of Punishment






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






30. 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.






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






32. Conditions or restriction mandated by the court that must be obeyed by a probationer






33. The sentence






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






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






36. Mandatory Sentence






37. 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...






38. Arguments for the Death Penalty

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






40. Models of sentencing






41. Right to confront witnesses






42. Motion for a direct verdict






43. Right to be competent at trail

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






45. Problem of Re-entry






46. Women Imprisoned






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






48. The substantive criminal law...






49. An argument in favor of the O.J. trial is likely to point to the fact that...






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







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