Quiz 3

A  provide treatment

B  initiate victim restitution

C  punish their sins

D  separate them from their peers

A  station adjustment

B  search and seizure

C  police discretion

D  cycle of alienation

A  ensuring that trials are concluded without continuances

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

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

D  providing effective post-dispositions to each youth

A  guided group interaction

B  behavioral therapy

C  recidivism

D  just deserts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  social learning theory

B  developmental life-course theory

C  social control theory

D  strain theory

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

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

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

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

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  Citation and referral to juvenile court

B  Station adjustment

C  Referral to a diversion agency

D  Detention

A  right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment

B  right to treatment

C  right to access to the courts

D  right to trial by jury

A  house arrest

B  a halfway house

C  a day-treatment center

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 cross-examination of witnesses

B  the sophistication and maturity of the juvenile

C  the prosecutorial merit of the complaint

D  the seriousness of the alleged offense to the community

A  statutory exclusion

B  revocation

C  judicial waiver

D  disposition hearing

A  shelter care

B  home detention

C  detention center

D  attention homes

A  that all court staff is adequately trained to handle it

B  that cases are diverted to alternative systems

C  that it is individualized and includes graduated sanctions

D  that victims have access to services they need

A  Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

B  National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups

C  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

D  Juvenile Court Act

A  restorative justice model

B  Wisconsin system

C  social study report

D  surveillance

A  adjudicatory hearing

B  dispositional hearing

C  aftercare

D  petition

A  lower-class youth

B  rural youth

C  white youth

D  urban youth

A  The system would be unmanageable.

B  Crime would likely remain constant

C  The cost of justice would likely be reduced.

D  Crime would ultimately be reduced.

A  double jeopardy

B  right to a jury trial

C  right to notice of charges

D  right to remain silent

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

B  Law Enforcement Education (LRE)

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

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

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 not related to crime.

D  It is usually studied together with race.

A  ranches and wilderness camps

B  boot camps

C  public training schools

D  reception and diagnostic centers

A  interrogation

B  intervention

C  Miranda reading

D  fingerprinting

A  global positioning system

B  identity verification system

C  victim notification system

D  group monitoring unit

A  reintegration

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

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

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

A  the increased likelihood of juvenile victimization in the adult system

B  the increased focus on rehabilitation in the adult system

C  the learning of criminal mores and behaviors in prison

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

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

B  Children require safeguards in juvenile court.

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

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

A  enabler role

B  detector role

C  enforcer role

D  broker role

A  consent decree

B  outright dismissal

C  filing of a petition

D  informal adjustment

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

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

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

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

A  institutionalization in a mental hospital

B  day-treatment program

C  state or private training school

D  community-based residential program

A  Pena v. New York State Division for Youth

B  Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck

C  In re Gault

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 delivering vocational education

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

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 not entitled to the right of jury trials.

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

A  the cottage system

B  diversion programs

C  half-way houses

D  probation

A  multisystemic therapy

B  aggression replacement training

C  family-integrated transitions

D  intensive supervision programs

A  Limit the enormous discretion granted to juvenile justice practitioners.

B  Decriminalize status offenses.

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

D  Make training schools safer and more humane.

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

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

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

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  expansion of restorative justice

D  drastic modifications in juvenile justice system

A  an integrated criminal court with a youth discount

B  determinate and mandatory sentencing

C  decriminalization of status offenses

D  transferring juveniles to the adult court for all proceedings

A  to reduce gang membership

B  to teach law-related education

C  to improve police-juvenile relations

D  to reduce drug use

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

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 available aftercare programs.