Quiz 3

A  initiate victim restitution

B  separate them from their peers

C  provide treatment

D  punish their sins

A  cycle of alienation

B  police discretion

C  station adjustment

D  search and seizure

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 trials are concluded without continuances

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

A  behavioral therapy

B  guided group interaction

C  recidivism

D  just deserts

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

B  Overall, 35 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 59 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  For drug offenses, 11 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 9 percent of the retained offenders.

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

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

A  social control theory

B  strain theory

C  social learning theory

D  developmental life-course theory

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

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

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

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

A  screens referral to the court carefully

B  conducts a fact-finding study on the youth

C  provides the best possible supervision and counseling to the youth

D  maintains a file on each probationer

A  Station adjustment

B  Detention

C  Citation and referral to juvenile court

D  Referral to a diversion agency

A  right to access to the courts

B  right to trial by jury

C  right to treatment

D  right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment

A  Outward Bound

B  a day-treatment center

C  house arrest

D  a halfway house

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 sophistication and maturity of the juvenile

B  the prosecutorial merit of the complaint

C  the seriousness of the alleged offense to the community

D  the cross-examination of witnesses

A  disposition hearing

B  revocation

C  judicial waiver

D  statutory exclusion

A  attention homes

B  detention center

C  home detention

D  shelter care

A  that cases are diverted to alternative systems

B  that victims have access to services they need

C  that all court staff is adequately trained to handle it

D  that it is individualized and includes graduated sanctions

A  National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups

B  Juvenile Court Act

C  Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

D  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

A  Wisconsin system

B  restorative justice model

C  surveillance

D  social study report

A  dispositional hearing

B  petition

C  adjudicatory hearing

D  aftercare

A  urban youth

B  lower-class youth

C  rural youth

D  white youth

A  The system would be unmanageable.

B  Crime would ultimately be reduced.

C  The cost of justice would likely be reduced.

D  Crime would likely remain constant

A  right to a jury trial

B  right to remain silent

C  right to notice of charges

D  double jeopardy

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

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

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

D  Law Enforcement Education (LRE)

A  It is not related to crime.

B  It is usually studied together with race.

C  Socioeconomic statistics are not gathered.

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

A  boot camps

B  public training schools

C  reception and diagnostic centers

D  ranches and wilderness camps

A  fingerprinting

B  intervention

C  interrogation

D  Miranda reading

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

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

A  the increased likelihood of juvenile victimization in the adult system

B  the learning of criminal mores and behaviors in prison

C  the increased focus on rehabilitation in the adult system

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

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

D  Children require safeguards in juvenile court.

A  broker role

B  enabler role

C  detector role

D  enforcer role

A  outright dismissal

B  filing of a petition

C  consent decree

D  informal adjustment

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

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

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

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

A  state or private training school

B  institutionalization in a mental hospital

C  community-based residential program

D  day-treatment program

A  In re Gault

B  Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck

C  Pena v. New York State Division for Youth

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 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  probation

C  diversion programs

D  half-way houses

A  family-integrated transitions

B  intensive supervision programs

C  aggression replacement training

D  multisystemic therapy

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

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

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  sparing use of evidence-based practices

B  drastic modifications in juvenile justice system

C  expansion of restorative justice

D  zero-dependency on technology

A  transferring juveniles to the adult court for all proceedings

B  decriminalization of status offenses

C  determinate and mandatory sentencing

D  an integrated criminal court with a youth discount

A  to reduce drug use

B  to improve police-juvenile relations

C  to reduce gang membership

D  to teach law-related education

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

B  Trained probation officers are not equipped to handle offenders.

C  There is a lack of available aftercare programs.

D  Youthful offenders are sent back to the same communities.