Quiz 3

A  provide treatment

B  punish their sins

C  separate them from their peers

D  initiate victim restitution

A  station adjustment

B  cycle of alienation

C  search and seizure

D  police discretion

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

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

C  providing effective post-dispositions to each youth

D  ensuring that trials are concluded without continuances

A  behavioral therapy

B  recidivism

C  just deserts

D  guided group interaction

A  For violent offenders, 16 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 24 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  Overall, 35 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 59 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 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 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 mandated a determinate sentence of five years for class A felonies, which include firstdegree kidnapping, first-degree arson, and murder.

A  social learning theory

B  developmental life-course theory

C  strain theory

D  social control theory

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

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 justice model is used in their adjudicatory and disposition hearings.

A  maintains a file on each probationer

B  conducts a fact-finding study on the youth

C  provides the best possible supervision and counseling to the youth

D  screens referral to the court carefully

A  Station adjustment

B  Referral to a diversion agency

C  Detention

D  Citation and referral to juvenile court

A  right to treatment

B  right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment

C  right to trial by jury

D  right to access to the courts

A  a halfway house

B  Outward Bound

C  house arrest

D  a day-treatment center

A  change in behavior or attitude

B  fairness for victims in the system

C  rehabilitation of criminals

D  restoration of law and order

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  statutory exclusion

B  judicial waiver

C  revocation

D  disposition hearing

A  attention homes

B  shelter care

C  home detention

D  detention center

A  that it is individualized and includes graduated sanctions

B  that all court staff is adequately trained to handle it

C  that cases are diverted to alternative systems

D  that victims have access to services they need

A  Juvenile Court Act

B  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

C  National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups

D  Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

A  Wisconsin system

B  restorative justice model

C  social study report

D  surveillance

A  adjudicatory hearing

B  aftercare

C  dispositional hearing

D  petition

A  lower-class youth

B  rural youth

C  white youth

D  urban 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 notice of charges

C  double jeopardy

D  right to remain silent

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

B  Law Enforcement Education (LRE)

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

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

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

B  It is usually studied together with race.

C  It is not related to crime.

D  Socioeconomic statistics are not gathered.

A  ranches and wilderness camps

B  reception and diagnostic centers

C  boot camps

D  public training schools

A  interrogation

B  fingerprinting

C  intervention

D  Miranda reading

A  group monitoring unit

B  identity verification system

C  victim notification system

D  global positioning system

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

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

A  the increased focus on rehabilitation in the adult system

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

C  the increased likelihood of juvenile victimization in the adult system

D  the learning of criminal mores and behaviors in prison

A  Children require safeguards in juvenile court.

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

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

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

A  broker role

B  enabler role

C  enforcer role

D  detector role

A  outright dismissal

B  consent decree

C  informal adjustment

D  filing of a petition

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

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

A  institutionalization in a mental hospital

B  community-based residential program

C  state or private training school

D  day-treatment program

A  In re Gault

B  Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck

C  Morales v. Turman

D  Pena v. New York State Division for Youth

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

B  minimum standards for delivering vocational education

C  minimum standards for delivering medical and psychiatric care

D  minimum standards for visitation during solitary confinement

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

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  The press may report juvenile court proceedings under certain circumstances.

A  diversion programs

B  the cottage system

C  probation

D  half-way houses

A  family-integrated transitions

B  aggression replacement training

C  intensive supervision programs

D  multisystemic therapy

A  Decriminalize status offenses.

B  Limit the enormous discretion granted to juvenile justice practitioners.

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

D  Make training schools safer and more humane.

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  zero-dependency on technology

C  drastic modifications in juvenile justice system

D  expansion of restorative justice

A  an integrated criminal court with a youth discount

B  decriminalization of status offenses

C  determinate and mandatory sentencing

D  transferring juveniles to the adult court for all proceedings

A  to teach law-related education

B  to improve police-juvenile relations

C  to reduce gang membership

D  to reduce drug use

A  There is a lack of available aftercare programs.

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 trained personnel working as probation officers.