Corrections and Punishments Quiz # 8

Community Service Order is a part of a disposition requiring probationers to work a certain number of hours doing tasks to

Earn money

Support their families

Help their communities

Gain profit

Deferred Adjudication is as decision is taken by some________

Social justice

Personal justice

Criminal justice

Both A and B

Crimes committed by adults juveniles is called by

Delinquent

Murder

Adjudication

Probation

Judicial Waiver involves a juvenile judge deciding after a full inquiry that the juvenile should be waived to the adult system

True

False

Legal principle giving the state the right to intercede and act in the best interest of the child is called

Parens patriae

Parents report

Legal report

None of the above

Report done in juvenile courts that is _______ to a presentence investigation report in adult courts

Analogous

Differentiative

Selective

Modulating

Prosecutorial Discretion is a way wich allows prosecutors to file some cases in______ court

Juvenile

Adult

Both

None

Status Offenders are _______ who commit certain actions that are legal for adults but not for children

Juveniles

Adults

Women

Girls

Status offenses apply only to

Girls

Women

Adults

Juveniles

In Statutory Exclusion state legislatures have statutorily excluded certain serious offenses from the juvenile courts for juveniles over a certain age

True

False

_______ is a process by which a juvenile offender is “waived” (transferred) to an adult court because he or she has committed a particularly serious crime

Waiver

Waives

Court

All of the above

The first ____ amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called Bill of Rights.

10

20

05

25

Civil Rights Claim is a section _______ claim that a person has been deprived of some legally granted right

1983

1846

1783

1984

In Civil Death Statute mandated that convicted felons lose all ______ rights

Human

Citizen

Sexual

All of the above

The period of time when there was a _____ return to the hands-off approach is called Deference period

Complete

Substantial

Partial

None of the above

Constitutional amendment that forbids cruel and unusual punishment ______ amendment is a

Eighth

Ninth

Seventh

Sixth

First Amendment guarantees freedom of

Religion

Speech

Press, and assembly

All of the above

Amendment which declares that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

14th

15th

16th

17th

Fourth Amendment guarantees the right to be free from unreasonable

Searches

Seizure

Both

None

Habeas Corpus is a ______ term meaning “you have the body.”

Latin

Greek

British

Urdu

Hands-Off Doctrine is early American court articulated belief that the judiciary can not interfere in the management of _______

Prisons

Hotels

Hubs

Houses

To an interest in freedom from governmental deprivation of _______ without due process

Education

Food

Liberty

Socialisation

A principle that ______ govern and that no one is above the law

Laws

People

Both

None

Section _____ Suits is a mechanism for state prison inmates to sue state officials in federal court

1983

1883

1984

1986

Brutalizing Effect is the assumption that rather than deterring homicides, they actually __________ following executions

Increase

Decrease

Seclude

None of the above

Major (partisan) source of information on the___________ in the United States

Theft penalty

Accident penalty

Death penalty

All of the above

Electrocution is that the person undergoing execution is strapped to the chair, and electrodes are attached to the person’s body.

True

False

A method of execution by which the condemned was strapped and _______ is called Firing Squad

Shot

Hanged

Poisoned

None of the above

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is the workhorse of neuro imaging used to assess the functioning of a person’s ____ while engaged in some task

Heart

Brain

Lungs

Kidney

Gas Chanber uses _______ gas to execute someone placed in an airtight chamber and strapped to a chair

Carbon dioxide

Nitroglycerin

Nitrous oxide

Cyanide