- What is the process of moving a juvenile offender to adult courts for criminal processing because of the serious nature of the juvenile's crime?
Your answer:
bind over
remand
waiver to adult courts
all of the above
- This is the formal processing of a juvenile offense through the juvenile court.
Your answer:
statutory exclusion
referral
order
informal trial
- In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that in hearings in which juveniles may be committed to an institution, they have the right to counsel, to notice of charges against them, to question witnesses, and to protection against self-incrimination.
Your answer:
McKeiver v. Pennsylvania
Kent v. United States
In re Gault
In re Winship
- Which offenses contribute to the most significant increase in the number of prison inmates?
Your answer:
child molestation and stalking
drug and public order offenses
murder and rape
white-collar crimes
- Which offense makes up a relatively high proportion of female arrests?
Your answer:
larceny-theft
DUI
murder
burglary
- Which is not a contributing factor to the aging of the prison population?
Your answer:
inmates are serving longer sentences in prison
the overall U.S. population is aging
prison is very stressful and causes inmates to age prematurely
mandatory sentences and sentencing guidelines have taken away judicial discretion which kept some older offenders on probation rather than in prison
- Crime is closely linked to which of the following?
Your answer:
poverty
little opportunity for legitimate economic success
drug use
all of the above
- This is a point determination for each inmate for use with parole guidelines.
Your answer:
guideline tables
guideline range
salient factor score
inmate score
- Which professions are ex-prisoners restricted from in many states?
Your answer:
law and medicine
dentistry and engineering
real estate and physical therapy
all of the above
- This U.S. penologist advocated the Irish system in the United States and became the first superintendent of the Elmira Reformatory
Your answer:
Alexander Maconochie
Zebulon R. Brockway
Sanford Bates
Sir Walter Crofton
- During the mid-twentieth century, all states used what type of sentencing?
Your answer:
indeterminate
split sentencing
determinate
mandatory minimum
- What is another type of correctional system and/or agency in the United States?
Your answer:
military prisons
private prisons
immigration facilities
all of the above
- Currently, the public disagrees that confinement facilities are the most effective way to protect the public, punish criminals, and deter them from committing further crimes after release.
Your answer:
True
False
- Many experts believe that the most effective way to prepare female offenders for success in the community is to maximize the use of alternative programs to incarceration.
Your answer:
True
False
- The U.S. Supreme Court still allows the execution of juvenile offenders who have committed very serious crimes.
Your answer:
True
False
- A majority of the prison population is comprised of minorities
Your answer:
True
False
- The number of females under all types of correctional supervision has grown at a more rapid rate than the number of males under supervision.
Your answer:
True
False
- Most offenders serve a determinate sentence that is much longer than in the past.
Your answer:
True
False
- After World War II, the retributive model of corrections was adopted as the dominant theory influencing prison practices.
Your answer:
True
False
- Inmates should do as little as possible in prison in order to prepare for release into the community.
Your answer:
True
False
- Currently, drug offenders with no prior involvement in crime never receive long mandatory prison sentences.
Your answer:
True
False
- The use of prisons as a criminal sanction has increased in part because of the public's increasing fear of crime, decreasing tolerance of criminals, and demand for tougher sentencing laws.
Your answer:
True
False
- The role of prisons in the U.S. criminal justice system over the past 25 years has grown tremendously.
Your answer:
True
False
- Prison administrators try to keep inmates in their cells and quiet for as much of the day as possible.
Your answer:
True
False
- ______________if face to face contact between a parole officer and an offender.
Your answer:
- The direct assignment of specific crimes committed by juveniles to be handled in the adult courts is____________waiver.
Your answer:
- A(n) _______________is an activity that is considered a crime only because the offender is under age 18 and that would not be a crime if committed by an adult.
Your answer:
- _______________is the supervision of a juvenile in the community after he or she has served time in a juvenile correctional institution.
Your answer:
- A(n) ______________is similar to the sentence for an adult.
Your answer:
- The temporary care of children in physically restricted facilities pending court disposition or transfer to another jurisdiction or agency is _________________.
Your answer:
- A statement of the delinquent acts a juvenile is alleged to have committed is a(n)________________.
Your answer:
- The 1995 case of ______________determined that differences in programs between men's and women's prisons do not necessarily violate the Constitution's equal protection clause.
Your answer:
- In _______________, female federal inmates claimed gender discrimination due to denial of access to facilities, programs, and services available to similarly situated male federal inmates.
Your answer:
- Prison programs that help inmates improve their parenting skills, even while in prison, are called ______________.
Your answer:
- Parole boards consider inmates' levels of ___________and chances for success and create conditions for supervision and treatment to respond to these risks and needs.
Your answer:
- _______________are the line-level employees responsible for supervising parolees in the community from the time of their release until they either successfully leave supervision or have their parole revoked.
Your answer:
- ______________conditions are applicable to all parolees.
Your answer:
- Crimes with little sophistication, such as murder, burglary, assault, and theft are _____________crimes.
Your answer:
- The _____________________is the agency within the Department of Justice tah tis charged with housing and managing federal offenders.
Your answer:
- The decision of Congress to make a crime a federal rather than a state offense is to ____________a crime.
Your answer: