Quiz 3

A  provide treatment

B  separate them from their peers

C  initiate victim restitution

D  punish their sins

A  station adjustment

B  search and seizure

C  cycle of alienation

D  police discretion

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

B  ensuring that trials are concluded without continuances

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

D  providing effective post-dispositions to each youth

A  behavioral therapy

B  just deserts

C  guided group interaction

D  recidivism

A  For drug offenses, 11 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 9 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 property offenses, 10 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 14 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  social control theory

B  social learning theory

C  developmental life-course theory

D  strain theory

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

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

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

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

A  provides the best possible supervision and counseling to the youth

B  conducts a fact-finding study on the youth

C  maintains a file on each probationer

D  screens referral to the court carefully

A  Citation and referral to juvenile court

B  Referral to a diversion agency

C  Detention

D  Station adjustment

A  right to treatment

B  right to access to the courts

C  right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment

D  right to trial by jury

A  house arrest

B  Outward Bound

C  a day-treatment center

D  a halfway house

A  restoration of law and order

B  fairness for victims in the system

C  rehabilitation of criminals

D  change in behavior or attitude

A  the sophistication and maturity of the juvenile

B  the cross-examination of witnesses

C  the prosecutorial merit of the complaint

D  the seriousness of the alleged offense to the community

A  judicial waiver

B  statutory exclusion

C  disposition hearing

D  revocation

A  detention center

B  attention homes

C  home detention

D  shelter care

A  that victims have access to services they need

B  that cases are diverted to alternative systems

C  that all court staff is adequately trained to handle it

D  that it is individualized and includes graduated sanctions

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  surveillance

D  social study report

A  dispositional hearing

B  petition

C  adjudicatory hearing

D  aftercare

A  lower-class youth

B  white youth

C  urban youth

D  rural youth

A  Crime would ultimately be reduced.

B  The system would be unmanageable.

C  Crime would likely remain constant

D  The cost of justice would likely be reduced.

A  right to a jury trial

B  double jeopardy

C  right to notice of charges

D  right to remain silent

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

B  Law Enforcement Education (LRE)

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

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

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  reception and diagnostic centers

C  ranches and wilderness camps

D  boot camps

A  fingerprinting

B  interrogation

C  intervention

D  Miranda reading

A  victim notification system

B  identity verification system

C  group monitoring unit

D  global positioning system

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

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

A  the learning of criminal mores and behaviors in prison

B  the increased likelihood of juvenile victimization in the adult system

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

D  the increased focus on rehabilitation in the adult system

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  enabler role

B  broker role

C  detector role

D  enforcer role

A  filing of a petition

B  informal adjustment

C  outright dismissal

D  consent decree

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

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

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

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

A  day-treatment program

B  institutionalization in a mental hospital

C  community-based residential program

D  state or private training school

A  Pena v. New York State Division for Youth

B  Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck

C  Morales v. Turman

D  In re Gault

A  minimum standards for delivering vocational education

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 visitation during solitary confinement

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  the cottage system

B  probation

C  half-way houses

D  diversion programs

A  aggression replacement training

B  family-integrated transitions

C  intensive supervision programs

D  multisystemic therapy

A  Limit the enormous discretion granted to juvenile justice practitioners.

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

C  Decriminalize status offenses.

D  Make training schools safer and more humane.

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

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

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

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

A  sparing use of evidence-based practices

B  drastic modifications in juvenile justice system

C  zero-dependency on technology

D  expansion of restorative justice

A  determinate and mandatory sentencing

B  decriminalization of status offenses

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 teach law-related education

C  to reduce drug use

D  to improve police-juvenile relations

A  Trained probation officers are not equipped to handle offenders.

B  There is a lack of available aftercare programs.

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

D  Youthful offenders are sent back to the same communities.