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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A punish their sins
B separate them from their peers
C provide treatment
D initiate victim restitution
Question #2
A cycle of alienation
B search and seizure
C police discretion
D station adjustment
Question #3
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 an adequate information system is available to evaluate performance
D ensuring that trials are concluded without continuances
Question #4
A just deserts
B behavioral therapy
C recidivism
D guided group interaction
Question #5
A For property offenses, 10 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 14 percent of the retained offenders.
B For violent offenders, 16 percent of the transferred offenders reoffended, compared with 24 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.
Question #6
A It mandated that the sentence for class A felonies can be extended by at least one year.
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 certain court procedures would be open to the public, although the names of juveniles still would remain confidential.
Question #7
A social learning theory
B developmental life-course theory
C social control theory
D strain theory
Question #8
A Their rights to legal counsel and to intelligently enter a plea are suspended.
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 The justice model is used in their adjudicatory and disposition hearings.
Question #9
A screens referral to the court carefully
B provides the best possible supervision and counseling to the youth
C conducts a fact-finding study on the youth
D maintains a file on each probationer
Question #10
A Citation and referral to juvenile court
B Referral to a diversion agency
C Detention
D Station adjustment
Question #11
A right to access to the courts
B right to treatment
C right to trial by jury
D right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment
Question #12
A a halfway house
B a day-treatment center
C house arrest
D Outward Bound
Question #13
A change in behavior or attitude
B restoration of law and order
C fairness for victims in the system
D rehabilitation of criminals
Question #14
A the seriousness of the alleged offense to the community
B the cross-examination of witnesses
C the prosecutorial merit of the complaint
D the sophistication and maturity of the juvenile
Question #15
A judicial waiver
B disposition hearing
C statutory exclusion
D revocation
Question #16
A attention homes
B home detention
C shelter care
D detention center
Question #17
A that all court staff is adequately trained to handle it
B that victims have access to services they need
C that it is individualized and includes graduated sanctions
D that cases are diverted to alternative systems
Question #18
A Juvenile Court Act
B Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
C Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
D National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups
Question #19
A surveillance
B Wisconsin system
C social study report
D restorative justice model
Question #20
A adjudicatory hearing
B aftercare
C petition
D dispositional hearing
Question #21
A urban youth
B rural youth
C lower-class youth
D white youth
Question #22
A Crime would ultimately be reduced.
B Crime would likely remain constant
C The system would be unmanageable.
D The cost of justice would likely be reduced.
Question #23
A right to remain silent
B right to a jury trial
C right to notice of charges
D double jeopardy
Question #24
A Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.)
B School Program to Educate and Control Drug Abuse (SPECDA)
C Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)
D Law Enforcement Education (LRE)
Question #25
A Socioeconomic statistics are not gathered.
B Juveniles who get in trouble with the law are usually of the same socioeconomic group.
C It is usually studied together with race.
D It is not related to crime.
Question #26
A boot camps
B ranches and wilderness camps
C reception and diagnostic centers
D public training schools
Question #27
A interrogation
B intervention
C Miranda reading
D fingerprinting
Question #28
A identity verification system
B victim notification system
C global positioning system
D group monitoring unit
Question #29
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 The lawyers need not accompany the delinquent as the civil proceedings were informal hearings.
C reintegration
D The juvenile judge should occasionally “put his arm around [the delinquent’s] shoulder and draw the lad to him.”
Question #30
A the sense of maturity juveniles feel about being tried and convicted as adults
B the increased focus on rehabilitation in the adult system
C the increased likelihood of juvenile victimization in the adult system
D the learning of criminal mores and behaviors in prison
Question #31
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.
Question #32
A enabler role
B broker role
C enforcer role
D detector role
Question #33
A outright dismissal
B consent decree
C informal adjustment
D filing of a petition
Question #34
A officers temporarily pulled from detective units or juvenile units to work on gangs
B a citizen task force formed to deal with a specific gang problem
C a permanent police unit specially tasked to work on gang problems
D a group of police officers who have all gone undercover to infiltrate gangs
Question #35
A community-based residential program
B institutionalization in a mental hospital
C day-treatment program
D state or private training school
Question #36
A Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck
B Morales v. Turman
C In re Gault
D Pena v. New York State Division for Youth
Question #37
A minimum standards for delivering vocational education
B minimum standards for visitation during solitary confinement
C minimum standards for assessing and testing children committed to the state
D minimum standards for delivering medical and psychiatric care
Question #38
A Juveniles are entitled to proof beyond a reasonable doubt during the adjudication proceedings.
B The press may report juvenile court proceedings under certain circumstances.
C Juveniles are not entitled to the right of jury trials.
D The constitutional privilege against self-incrimination is as applicable in the case of juveniles as it is with respect to adults.
Question #39
A diversion programs
B half-way houses
C the cottage system
D probation
Question #40
A multisystemic therapy
B aggression replacement training
C intensive supervision programs
D family-integrated transitions
Question #41
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.
Question #42
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.
Question #43
A sparing use of evidence-based practices
B expansion of restorative justice
C drastic modifications in juvenile justice system
D zero-dependency on technology
Question #44
A determinate and mandatory sentencing
B transferring juveniles to the adult court for all proceedings
C decriminalization of status offenses
D an integrated criminal court with a youth discount
Question #45
A to teach law-related education
B to improve police-juvenile relations
C to reduce drug use
D to reduce gang membership
Question #46
A There is a lack of available aftercare programs.
B Youthful offenders are sent back to the same communities.
C There is a lack of trained personnel working as probation officers.
D Trained probation officers are not equipped to handle offenders.