Quiz 3

A  punish their sins

B  separate them from their peers

C  provide treatment

D  initiate victim restitution

A  cycle of alienation

B  search and seizure

C  police discretion

D  station adjustment

A  providing effective post-dispositions to each youth

B  encouraging family members to participate in the development of the youth’s intervention plan

C  ensuring that an adequate information system is available to evaluate performance

D  ensuring that trials are concluded without continuances

A  just deserts

B  behavioral therapy

C  recidivism

D  guided group interaction

A  For property offenses, 10 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 14 percent of the retained offenders.

B  For violent offenders, 16 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 24 percent of the retained offenders.

C  Overall, 35 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 59 percent of the retained offenders.

D  For drug offenses, 11 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 9 percent of the retained offenders.

A  It mandated that the sentence for class A felonies can be extended by at least one year.

B  It lowered the age at which waiver could occur to fourteen years old for capital, firstdegree, and aggravated controlled substance felony offenses.

C  It mandated a determinate sentence of five years for class A felonies, which include firstdegree kidnapping, first-degree arson, and murder.

D  It mandated that certain court procedures would be open to the public, although the names of juveniles still would remain confidential.

A  social learning theory

B  developmental life-course theory

C  social control theory

D  strain theory

A  Their rights to legal counsel and to intelligently enter a plea are suspended.

B  They are transferred quickly to the adult court and handled as adults.

C  The “best interest of the child” standard for decision making is followed.

D  The justice model is used in their adjudicatory and disposition hearings.

A  screens referral to the court carefully

B  provides the best possible supervision and counseling to the youth

C  conducts a fact-finding study on the youth

D  maintains a file on each probationer

A  Citation and referral to juvenile court

B  Referral to a diversion agency

C  Detention

D  Station adjustment

A  right to access to the courts

B  right to treatment

C  right to trial by jury

D  right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment

A  a halfway house

B  a day-treatment center

C  house arrest

D  Outward Bound

A  change in behavior or attitude

B  restoration of law and order

C  fairness for victims in the system

D  rehabilitation of criminals

A  the seriousness of the alleged offense to the community

B  the cross-examination of witnesses

C  the prosecutorial merit of the complaint

D  the sophistication and maturity of the juvenile

A  judicial waiver

B  disposition hearing

C  statutory exclusion

D  revocation

A  attention homes

B  home detention

C  shelter care

D  detention center

A  that all court staff is adequately trained to handle it

B  that victims have access to services they need

C  that it is individualized and includes graduated sanctions

D  that cases are diverted to alternative systems

A  Juvenile Court Act

B  Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

C  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

D  National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups

A  surveillance

B  Wisconsin system

C  social study report

D  restorative justice model

A  adjudicatory hearing

B  aftercare

C  petition

D  dispositional hearing

A  urban youth

B  rural youth

C  lower-class youth

D  white youth

A  Crime would ultimately be reduced.

B  Crime would likely remain constant

C  The system would be unmanageable.

D  The cost of justice would likely be reduced.

A  right to remain silent

B  right to a jury trial

C  right to notice of charges

D  double jeopardy

A  Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.)

B  School Program to Educate and Control Drug Abuse (SPECDA)

C  Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)

D  Law Enforcement Education (LRE)

A  Socioeconomic statistics are not gathered.

B  Juveniles who get in trouble with the law are usually of the same socioeconomic group.

C  It is usually studied together with race.

D  It is not related to crime.

A  boot camps

B  ranches and wilderness camps

C  reception and diagnostic centers

D  public training schools

A  interrogation

B  intervention

C  Miranda reading

D  fingerprinting

A  identity verification system

B  victim notification system

C  global positioning system

D  group monitoring unit

A  The youths brought before the court should be given the same care, supervision, and discipline as would be provided by a good parent.

B  The lawyers need not accompany the delinquent as the civil proceedings were informal hearings.

C  reintegration

D  The juvenile judge should occasionally “put his arm around [the delinquent’s] shoulder and draw the lad to him.”

A  the sense of maturity juveniles feel about being tried and convicted as adults

B  the increased focus on rehabilitation in the adult system

C  the increased likelihood of juvenile victimization in the adult system

D  the learning of criminal mores and behaviors in prison

A  Solitary confinement and strip cells should not be used as tools of punishment.

B  Juveniles could not be held in institutions that did not provide for their rehabilitation.

C  Children require safeguards in juvenile court.

D  Use of isolation, hand restraints, and tranquilizing drugs must be barred.

A  enabler role

B  broker role

C  enforcer role

D  detector role

A  outright dismissal

B  consent decree

C  informal adjustment

D  filing of a petition

A  officers temporarily pulled from detective units or juvenile units to work on gangs

B  a citizen task force formed to deal with a specific gang problem

C  a permanent police unit specially tasked to work on gang problems

D  a group of police officers who have all gone undercover to infiltrate gangs

A  community-based residential program

B  institutionalization in a mental hospital

C  day-treatment program

D  state or private training school

A  Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck

B  Morales v. Turman

C  In re Gault

D  Pena v. New York State Division for Youth

A  minimum standards for delivering vocational education

B  minimum standards for visitation during solitary confinement

C  minimum standards for assessing and testing children committed to the state

D  minimum standards for delivering medical and psychiatric care

A  Juveniles are entitled to proof beyond a reasonable doubt during the adjudication proceedings.

B  The press may report juvenile court proceedings under certain circumstances.

C  Juveniles are not entitled to the right of jury trials.

D  The constitutional privilege against self-incrimination is as applicable in the case of juveniles as it is with respect to adults.

A  diversion programs

B  half-way houses

C  the cottage system

D  probation

A  multisystemic therapy

B  aggression replacement training

C  intensive supervision programs

D  family-integrated transitions

A  Decriminalize status offenses.

B  Make training schools safer and more humane.

C  Limit the enormous discretion granted to juvenile justice practitioners.

D  Divert youthful offenders from voluntary services into the justice system.

A  Official data disproves disproportionate involvement in nonlethal violence on the part of African American youths.

B  American Indian youths are less likely than African American or Asian American youths to be arrested for alcohol offenses.

C  Juvenile property crime data show that African American youths are less involved in such offenses than white youths.

D  The rates of juvenile homicide are higher for minorities than for white youthful offenders.

A  sparing use of evidence-based practices

B  expansion of restorative justice

C  drastic modifications in juvenile justice system

D  zero-dependency on technology

A  determinate and mandatory sentencing

B  transferring juveniles to the adult court for all proceedings

C  decriminalization of status offenses

D  an integrated criminal court with a youth discount

A  to teach law-related education

B  to improve police-juvenile relations

C  to reduce drug use

D  to reduce gang membership

A  There is a lack of available aftercare programs.

B  Youthful offenders are sent back to the same communities.

C  There is a lack of trained personnel working as probation officers.

D  Trained probation officers are not equipped to handle offenders.