What type of treatment program has flourished under the Bush administration?
a. Behavior modification
b. Milieu therapy
c. Therapeutic community
d. Faith-based rehabilitation
Jessica was asked to participate in a rehabilitation program that is designed to provide a
more successful readjustment to society without theft and robbery. Her participation in
this program will occur during what stage of the criminal justice process?
a. sentencing/disposition
b. pre-release
c. correctional treatment
d. post release
What is the most common formal sentence for juveniles?
a. Release to parental custody
b. Short term confinement in a private juvenile facility
c. Long term confinement in a state institution
d. Brief custody at the local jail
Because of the budget deficit, the United States government is looking for ways to cut
costs. They have announced a plan to dissemble all State Supreme Courts or courts of
last resort and have all cases appealed from state appellate courts go directly to the
United States Supreme Court.
What does this decision mean for those people that are on either side of the gun control
debate?
a. only one side will be able to have their day in court
b. the court will be clogged with minute issues of law and backlogs of criminal cases
c. the majority opinion will become the landmark decision
d. the state supreme court judges will be employed through the federal system
Feticide Law makes killing of an unborn fetus murder.
a. True
b. False
What was a result of the Kansas City Gun Experiment?
a. There was a measurable effect on gun crimes in the target area during the experiment.
b. Assaults on police officers increased in the target area.
c. Gun crimes in the target area marginally increased.
d. Gun crimes were displaced to contiguous beats.
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana and
Colorado and Washington have legalized its recreational use. In some state police are
directed to patrol the areas near medical marijuana dispensaries more frequently
because it is still illegal to use it recreationally and usually still illegal to sell. The new
governor of California is facing a budget crisis and must reduce spending in law
enforcement.
The governor has targeted medical marijuana users because the police spend more time
patrolling in areas where dispensaries are located. In what way will he be most
successful in his quest to reduce spending?
a. start to punish medical marijuana users
b. make violations of medical marijuana laws a felony offense
c. make other violations of law usually punishable by fine, now arrest able offenses
d. direct police to warn and release whenever possible
The UCR would handle and categorize John’s crime as what?
a. dirty hands
b. part I
c. public endangerment
d. part II
In adapting to a female institution a common practice is;
a. resorting to extreme violence and victimization
b. marry other inmates while in the employ of the state department of corrections.
c. become a snitch for the correctional officers.
d. self mutilation or carving
At Zack’s trial, the prosecution opens their questions by calling on the cleaning lady
who found the dead bodies. She tells the court that Zack has always been a demon child
and there was always something wrong with him. The judge instructs the jury not to
listen to the explanation of who Zack was and how he behaved because…
a. she is an expert in cleaning up blood.
b. her testimony was not fact but her opinion.
c. her opinion boosts the prosecution’s case.
d. the defense has already entered a directed verdict.
What type of fine is geared to the offender’s net daily income?
a. Social security fines
b. Tax fines
c. Brevity fines
d. Day fines
By punishing an offender severely as an example to others achieves the goal of:
a. general deterrence.
b. rehabilitation.
c. specific deterrence.
d. incapacitation.
Which of the following is not one of the judicial functions of a judge?
a. Considering leniency or severity requests from police and prosecutors
b. Administrative control over probation
c. Consulting with probation staff on treatment decisions
d. Drafting legislative language to be forwarded to congressional sponsors
In colonial America, the sheriff did not patrol or seek out crime.
a. True
b. False
A DNA match indicates a four billion-to- chance that the suspect is the offender.
a. One
b. Five
c. Ten
d. Twenty
Bail is typically granted in a felony hearing;
a. only when the suspect has absconded
b. when there has been error in arresting an innocent individual
c. only at the police station
d. during court hearings
The drug court movement began in New York.
a. True
b. False
Shari is 16 years old. She used to get good grades but recently you notice that she is
moody and unfocused in school and often has trouble completing tasks. She has never
been in trouble with the law but she has grown up in a socio- economically challenged
situation with very little family support. No one showed up for her last parent teacher
conference and you are concerned about her current situation at home.
Shari has just been taken into custody for skipping school and underage drinking. What
does the juvenile system accomplish by taking her off the street?
a. vior dire
b. lex talionis
c. inregault
d. parens patriae
What type of jail has the correctional officer’s station located inside a secure room?
a. Linear jail
b. Indirect supervision jail
c. Direct supervision jail
d. Maximum security jail
All evidence points to the conclusion that prosecutorial discretion is used to:
a. influence judicial decision making in the sentencing stage.
b. influence who gets re-elected to judgeships.
c. screen out the weakest cases.
d. achieve a desirable sentence.
If Shari had grown up in the 1600’s before there was a formal juvenile justice system,
what would Shari have been
considered as part of the poor laws?
a. wayward and destitute
b. child in need of supervision
c. person in need of supervision
d. status offender
Courts of general jurisdiction are also known as what?
a. Appellate courts
b. Municipal courts
c. District courts
d. Felony courts
Most juvenile aftercare involves:
a. Parole
b. Probation
c. Community service
d. Counseling
Defined as the ability to monitor one’s own and others feelings and emotions, to
discriminate among them and to
use this information to guide ones thinking and actions is the concept of?
a. Miranda Protections
b. Demeanor
c. Department politics
d. Emotional Intelligence
Who determines the actual length of incarceration in the indeterminate sentence?
a. Judge
b. Prosecutor and the defense attorney
c. State legislature
d. Correctional agency and the judge
Which of the following is a factor that helps contribute to swelling prison populations?
a. Failure of community release programs
b. Mandatory sentencing laws
c. Conviction rates
d. All of these
Adherents of this justice perspective believe that the greatest concern of the justice
system should be providing fair and equitable treatment to those accused of committing
a crime.
a. Crime control
b. Rehabilitation
c. Due process
d. Equal justice
Community service is an example of what?
a. Forfeiture
b. Shock incarceration
c. Restitution
d. Intensive probation supervision
The grand jury has the power to act as an independent investigative body.
a. True
b. False
Federal police agencies are the only agencies that have not privatized their police
services in order to cut expenses.
a. True
b. False
The juvenile justice system developed as a result of?
a. a desire to help and treat children
b. a desire to sanction the children not being punished in criminal justice
c. Roman laws
d. Staredecisislaws
The prosecution uses an adversarial procedure to obtain the truth when trying to
determine guilt.
a. True
b. False
Your 5thamendment rights protect your right to have a compulsory process for obtaining
favorable witnesses.
a. True
b. False
An is the condition that in order to make an arrest in a misdemeanor, the arresting
officer must have personally witnessed the crime being committed______
The first treatment programs in prison were______ .
Using local rules of conduct and customs to decide a case is referred to as
.
Delineate the legal elements required to constitute a crime. Describe and give an
example of each of the classifications of crime.
Describe three tests of the insanity defense and how each is applied.
Judges have broad discretion to set specific conditions of probation using a______
approach.
Ex inmates may also find that going straight is an_____ impossibility.
The_____ Amendment outlaws excessive bail.
Outline the main premises of restorative justice. Discuss the challenges of this model
and how these challenges may be overcome.
What are some obstacles faced by the paroled inmate in the community? How do these
obstacles influence the likelihood of recidivism?
The offender’s race, gender and ethnic background are_____ issues?
____is another term for the order maintenance function of police.
Elaborate three types of green crime.
The first police agency was developed in 1829 in____ .
Discuss the legal basis for our right to counsel.
If the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeks to bar or remove someone
from acting as a corporate officer they must take the case_____
In the_____ system of indigent defense, a block grant is given to a lawyer or law firm
to handle indigent defense cases.
Discuss how the criminal justice assembly line results in the concept of a “criminal
justice funnel.” What are the potential consequences of this model on society?
In death penalty cases, as many as 25% of all_____ may be wrong.