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25 Questions

1. What are characteristics of inmates

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

3. How confidential are juvenile records kept?

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

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

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

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

8. Right to counsel

9. Some of the policing reforms that August Vollmer proposed include...

10. An administrative act performed by a parole authority that remove a person from parole -or a judicial orded by a court removing a person from parole or probation - in response to a violation on the part of the parolee.

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

12. The substantive criminal law...

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

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

15. Consecutive sentence

16. An example of the criminal defense of justifaction is...

17. Good time

18. 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.

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

20. Duties of probation officers

21. Evidentiary Standard

22. Establishes the practices and processes of the criminal law

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

24. Alternative Correctional Institution

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