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Why a Separate Juvenile Justice System? MCQ

_____ is defined as the Supreme Court during the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren that handed down a number of important legal decisions in the 1960s and early 1970s that increased the due process rights of juveniles.

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Correct Answer: Warren Court

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_____ is a variant of the incapacitation justification for punishment in which high-risk offenders can be identified and incapacitated for long periods, while lower-risk offenders can be handled with less serious punishments and for shorter amounts of time.

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Correct Answer: Selective incapacitation

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Is retribution a justification for punishment that is based on the idea of just deserts; punishment that is proportionate to the act that a person has committed?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a justification for punishment that focuses on dealing with delinquency as a harm and bringing healing in the aftermath of a harm.

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Correct Answer: Restoration

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_____ is defined as an approach to the study of delinquency and other behaviors that involves the use of scientific observations and controls.

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Correct Answer: Positivism

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_____ is a justification for punishment that involves the goal of punishing an individual as a means of stopping her or him from doing the same act of delinquency or crime in the future.

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Correct Answer: Individual (specific) deterrence

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Is incapacitation a justification for punishment aimed at making someone incapable of committing a crime, usually through isolation and/or restriction of movement and decision making?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the goal of punishing an individual as a means of deterring others from participating in delinquency or crime.

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Correct Answer: General deterrence

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_____ is defined as the act of moving a juvenile out of and/or avoiding the detention of a juvenile in an institution as a punishment for wrongdoing; this movement has been aimed in recent years at status offenders.

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Correct Answer: Deinstitutionalization

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Deinstitutionalization refers to the act of moving a juvenile out of and/or avoiding the detention of a juvenile in an institution as a punishment for wrongdoing.

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Correct Answer: True

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In re Winship was decided in 1967 and it required that alleged juveniles delinquents have the right to hearings in which formal procedures were followed.

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Correct Answer: False

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Restoration is a justification that refers to making someone incapable of committing crime, usually from either isolation or restricting his/her movement and or choices within society.

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Correct Answer: False

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There are two primary types of deterrence: specific and general.

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Correct Answer: True

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The term superpredator became a code word for young White males.

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Correct Answer: False

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The notion of the youth “______” was discussed frequently by well-known scholars who were looking at population forecasts and imagining a dim and scary future for law-abiding people living in the 2000s and pumped up punitive responses to juvenile delinquency.

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Correct Answer: Superpredators

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The ______ ruled on a number of cases in which the due process rights of juveniles were increased.

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Correct Answer: Warren Court

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______ refers to making someone incapable of committing a crime, usually from either isolating or restricting his/her movement and or choices within society.

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Correct Answer: Incapacitation

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______ is a justification for punishment rooted in the assumption that human beings are rational and make free choices for which they should be responsible.

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Correct Answer: Deterrence

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______ is used to justify the punishment of both juveniles and adults and hinges upon the idea of just deserts; punishment that is proportionate to the act that a person has committed.

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Correct Answer: Retribution

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