Quiz 3

A  punish their sins

B  provide treatment

C  initiate victim restitution

D  separate them from their peers

A  station adjustment

B  cycle of alienation

C  police discretion

D  search and seizure

A  ensuring that trials are concluded without continuances

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

C  providing effective post-dispositions to each youth

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

A  guided group interaction

B  recidivism

C  just deserts

D  behavioral therapy

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

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

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  developmental life-course theory

B  social control theory

C  social learning theory

D  strain theory

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

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

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

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

A  conducts a fact-finding study on the youth

B  screens referral to the court carefully

C  maintains a file on each probationer

D  provides the best possible supervision and counseling to the youth

A  Detention

B  Station adjustment

C  Citation and referral to juvenile court

D  Referral to a diversion agency

A  right to treatment

B  right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment

C  right to trial by jury

D  right to access to the courts

A  house arrest

B  a day-treatment center

C  a halfway house

D  Outward Bound

A  restoration of law and order

B  rehabilitation of criminals

C  change in behavior or attitude

D  fairness for victims in the system

A  the seriousness of the alleged offense to the community

B  the prosecutorial merit of the complaint

C  the cross-examination of witnesses

D  the sophistication and maturity of the juvenile

A  statutory exclusion

B  disposition hearing

C  judicial waiver

D  revocation

A  detention center

B  attention homes

C  shelter care

D  home detention

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 Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

B  National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups

C  Juvenile Court Act

D  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

A  social study report

B  Wisconsin system

C  restorative justice model

D  surveillance

A  petition

B  aftercare

C  adjudicatory hearing

D  dispositional hearing

A  rural youth

B  lower-class youth

C  urban youth

D  white youth

A  The cost of justice would likely be reduced.

B  Crime would ultimately be reduced.

C  The system would be unmanageable.

D  Crime would likely remain constant

A  double jeopardy

B  right to remain silent

C  right to notice of charges

D  right to a jury trial

A  Law Enforcement Education (LRE)

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

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

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

A  It is usually studied together with race.

B  It is not related to crime.

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

D  Socioeconomic statistics are not gathered.

A  public training schools

B  ranches and wilderness camps

C  boot camps

D  reception and diagnostic centers

A  Miranda reading

B  intervention

C  interrogation

D  fingerprinting

A  group monitoring unit

B  global positioning system

C  victim notification system

D  identity verification system

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

B  reintegration

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

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

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 learning of criminal mores and behaviors in prison

D  the increased likelihood of juvenile victimization in the adult system

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

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

C  Children require safeguards in juvenile court.

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

A  enforcer role

B  broker role

C  enabler role

D  detector role

A  consent decree

B  outright dismissal

C  filing of a petition

D  informal adjustment

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

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

A  state or private training school

B  institutionalization in a mental hospital

C  community-based residential program

D  day-treatment program

A  Pena v. New York State Division for Youth

B  In re Gault

C  Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck

D  Morales v. Turman

A  minimum standards for visitation during solitary confinement

B  minimum standards for delivering medical and psychiatric care

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

D  minimum standards for delivering vocational education

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

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

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

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

A  half-way houses

B  the cottage system

C  diversion programs

D  probation

A  aggression replacement training

B  intensive supervision programs

C  multisystemic therapy

D  family-integrated transitions

A  Make training schools safer and more humane.

B  Limit the enormous discretion granted to juvenile justice practitioners.

C  Decriminalize status offenses.

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

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

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

A  zero-dependency on technology

B  sparing use of evidence-based practices

C  drastic modifications in juvenile justice system

D  expansion of restorative justice

A  decriminalization of status offenses

B  determinate and mandatory sentencing

C  transferring juveniles to the adult court for all proceedings

D  an integrated criminal court with a youth discount

A  to reduce gang membership

B  to reduce drug use

C  to improve police-juvenile relations

D  to teach law-related education

A  There is a lack of available aftercare programs.

B  Youthful offenders are sent back to the same communities.

C  Trained probation officers are not equipped to handle offenders.

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