Quiz 3

A  separate them from their peers

B  punish their sins

C  provide treatment

D  initiate victim restitution

A  station adjustment

B  police discretion

C  search and seizure

D  cycle of alienation

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  Overall, 35 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 59 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  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 mandated a determinate sentence of five years for class A felonies, which include firstdegree kidnapping, first-degree arson, and murder.

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

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

A  social control theory

B  social learning theory

C  strain theory

D  developmental life-course 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  provides the best possible supervision and counseling to the youth

D  maintains a file on each probationer

A  Station adjustment

B  Citation and referral to juvenile court

C  Detention

D  Referral to a diversion agency

A  right to treatment

B  right to access to the courts

C  right to trial by jury

D  right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment

A  house arrest

B  a halfway house

C  a day-treatment center

D  Outward Bound

A  fairness for victims in the system

B  change in behavior or attitude

C  restoration of law and order

D  rehabilitation of criminals

A  the prosecutorial merit of the complaint

B  the cross-examination of witnesses

C  the sophistication and maturity of the juvenile

D  the seriousness of the alleged offense to the community

A  statutory exclusion

B  revocation

C  judicial waiver

D  disposition hearing

A  home detention

B  attention homes

C  shelter care

D  detention center

A  that all court staff is adequately trained to handle it

B  that victims have access to services they need

C  that cases are diverted to alternative systems

D  that it is individualized and includes graduated sanctions

A  Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

B  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

C  National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups

D  Juvenile Court Act

A  restorative justice model

B  Wisconsin system

C  surveillance

D  social study report

A  dispositional hearing

B  adjudicatory hearing

C  aftercare

D  petition

A  rural youth

B  urban youth

C  white youth

D  lower-class youth

A  The cost of justice would likely be reduced.

B  The system would be unmanageable.

C  Crime would likely remain constant

D  Crime would ultimately be reduced.

A  right to a jury trial

B  right to remain silent

C  double jeopardy

D  right to notice of charges

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

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

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

D  Law Enforcement Education (LRE)

A  It is usually studied together with race.

B  Socioeconomic statistics are not gathered.

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

D  It is not related to crime.

A  reception and diagnostic centers

B  public training schools

C  boot camps

D  ranches and wilderness camps

A  fingerprinting

B  Miranda reading

C  interrogation

D  intervention

A  group monitoring unit

B  victim notification system

C  identity verification system

D  global positioning system

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

B  reintegration

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

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

D  Children require safeguards in juvenile court.

A  enforcer role

B  enabler role

C  detector role

D  broker role

A  informal adjustment

B  outright dismissal

C  consent decree

D  filing of a petition

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 citizen task force formed to deal with a specific gang problem

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

A  institutionalization in a mental hospital

B  state or private training school

C  community-based residential program

D  day-treatment program

A  Pena v. New York State Division for Youth

B  Morales v. Turman

C  In re Gault

D  Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck

A  minimum standards for visitation during solitary confinement

B  minimum standards for delivering vocational education

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

D  minimum standards for delivering medical and psychiatric care

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

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

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  diversion programs

B  half-way houses

C  probation

D  the cottage system

A  family-integrated transitions

B  multisystemic therapy

C  intensive supervision programs

D  aggression replacement training

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

B  Decriminalize status offenses.

C  Limit the enormous discretion granted to juvenile justice practitioners.

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

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

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

A  sparing use of evidence-based practices

B  zero-dependency on technology

C  drastic modifications in juvenile justice system

D  expansion of restorative justice

A  determinate and mandatory sentencing

B  transferring juveniles to the adult court for all proceedings

C  an integrated criminal court with a youth discount

D  decriminalization of status offenses

A  to improve police-juvenile relations

B  to reduce gang membership

C  to reduce drug use

D  to teach law-related education

A  Youthful offenders are sent back to the same communities.

B  There is a lack of available aftercare programs.

C  Trained probation officers are not equipped to handle offenders.

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