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Criminal Justice

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The officers of the London Metropolitan Police...






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






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






4. Right to compulsory process






5. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from what?






6. What time of year are crime rates in the U.S. the highest?






7. The substantive criminal law...






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






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






10. Right to counsel






11. 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.






12. What is General Deterrence?






13. A person can challenge a guilty plea by...






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






15. What are the Defendants Legal Rights at Trial?






16. Problems of Parole






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






18. Argument against the Death Penalty






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






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






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






22. Judicial Waiver






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






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






25. Prison Rape/Sexual Coercion






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






27. The sentence






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






29. Right to confront witnesses






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






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






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






33. Three Strikes Law






34. Concurrent Jursidiction






35. Women Imprisoned






36. The federal agency responsible for the witness protection program and fugitive investigations is...






37. 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






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






39. According to Sampson and Laub's age-graded theory of crime - a developmental theory - the following points are associated with reduced recidivism...






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






41. Probation failure correlates to...






42. Status Offenders






43. 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...






44. A state of federal correctional institution for incarceration of felony offenders for term of one year or more.






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






46. Good time






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






48. Goals of Punishment






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






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