Quiz 3

A  provide treatment

B  separate them from their peers

C  punish their sins

D  initiate victim restitution

A  search and seizure

B  cycle of alienation

C  station adjustment

D  police discretion

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  just deserts

C  recidivism

D  guided group interaction

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

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

C  For property offenses, 10 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 14 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 a determinate sentence of five years for class A felonies, which include firstdegree kidnapping, first-degree arson, and murder.

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

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

A  developmental life-course theory

B  strain theory

C  social control theory

D  social learning theory

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

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  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  Detention

B  Station adjustment

C  Citation and referral to juvenile court

D  Referral to a diversion agency

A  right to treatment

B  right to trial by jury

C  right to access to the courts

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  restoration of law and order

B  fairness for victims in the system

C  change in behavior or attitude

D  rehabilitation of criminals

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  statutory exclusion

D  judicial waiver

A  shelter care

B  home detention

C  detention center

D  attention homes

A  that cases are diverted to alternative systems

B  that it is individualized and includes graduated sanctions

C  that all court staff is adequately trained to handle it

D  that victims have access to services they need

A  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

B  Juvenile Court Act

C  Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

D  National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups

A  surveillance

B  social study report

C  restorative justice model

D  Wisconsin system

A  adjudicatory hearing

B  dispositional hearing

C  petition

D  aftercare

A  urban youth

B  lower-class youth

C  white youth

D  rural youth

A  Crime would likely remain constant

B  Crime would ultimately be reduced.

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  Law Enforcement Education (LRE)

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

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

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

A  It is not related to crime.

B  It is usually studied together with race.

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

D  Socioeconomic statistics are not gathered.

A  ranches and wilderness camps

B  reception and diagnostic centers

C  public training schools

D  boot camps

A  interrogation

B  intervention

C  fingerprinting

D  Miranda reading

A  victim notification system

B  group monitoring unit

C  identity verification system

D  global positioning system

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

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  reintegration

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 increased focus on rehabilitation in the adult system

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

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  broker role

B  enforcer role

C  detector role

D  enabler role

A  consent decree

B  informal adjustment

C  outright dismissal

D  filing of a petition

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

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

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

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

A  day-treatment program

B  institutionalization in a mental hospital

C  community-based residential program

D  state or private training school

A  In re Gault

B  Pena v. New York State Division for Youth

C  Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck

D  Morales v. Turman

A  minimum standards for delivering vocational education

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

C  minimum standards for visitation during solitary confinement

D  minimum standards for delivering medical and psychiatric care

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

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

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

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

A  probation

B  half-way houses

C  diversion programs

D  the cottage system

A  intensive supervision programs

B  aggression replacement training

C  multisystemic therapy

D  family-integrated transitions

A  Decriminalize status offenses.

B  Make training schools safer and more humane.

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

D  Limit the enormous discretion granted to juvenile justice practitioners.

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  expansion of restorative justice

B  zero-dependency on technology

C  drastic modifications in juvenile justice system

D  sparing use of evidence-based practices

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 improve police-juvenile relations

B  to teach law-related education

C  to reduce gang membership

D  to reduce drug use

A  Youthful offenders are sent back to the same communities.

B  Trained probation officers are not equipped to handle offenders.

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

D  There is a lack of available aftercare programs.