Quiz 3

A  initiate victim restitution

B  punish their sins

C  provide treatment

D  separate them from their peers

A  search and seizure

B  station adjustment

C  police discretion

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 an adequate information system is available to evaluate performance

D  ensuring that trials are concluded without continuances

A  just deserts

B  guided group interaction

C  recidivism

D  behavioral therapy

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 the sentence for class A felonies can be extended by at least one year.

B  It mandated a determinate sentence of five years for class A felonies, which include firstdegree kidnapping, first-degree arson, and murder.

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

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

A  social control theory

B  strain theory

C  social learning theory

D  developmental life-course theory

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

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

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  screens referral to the court carefully

B  provides the best possible supervision and counseling to the youth

C  maintains a file on each probationer

D  conducts a fact-finding study on the youth

A  Station adjustment

B  Referral to a diversion agency

C  Citation and referral to juvenile court

D  Detention

A  right to treatment

B  right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment

C  right to access to the courts

D  right to trial by jury

A  a halfway house

B  a day-treatment center

C  Outward Bound

D  house arrest

A  fairness for victims in the system

B  rehabilitation of criminals

C  restoration of law and order

D  change in behavior or attitude

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  judicial waiver

B  statutory exclusion

C  revocation

D  disposition hearing

A  shelter care

B  home detention

C  detention center

D  attention homes

A  that all court staff is adequately trained to handle it

B  that cases are diverted to alternative systems

C  that victims have access to services they need

D  that it is individualized and includes graduated sanctions

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

A  restorative justice model

B  surveillance

C  social study report

D  Wisconsin system

A  aftercare

B  petition

C  dispositional hearing

D  adjudicatory hearing

A  white youth

B  urban youth

C  rural youth

D  lower-class youth

A  Crime would ultimately be reduced.

B  The cost of justice would likely be reduced.

C  Crime would likely remain constant

D  The system would be unmanageable.

A  right to remain silent

B  double jeopardy

C  right to a jury trial

D  right to notice of charges

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

B  Law Enforcement Education (LRE)

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

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

A  Socioeconomic statistics are not gathered.

B  It is not related to crime.

C  It is usually studied together with race.

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

A  ranches and wilderness camps

B  boot camps

C  public training schools

D  reception and diagnostic centers

A  interrogation

B  Miranda reading

C  intervention

D  fingerprinting

A  victim notification system

B  identity verification system

C  group monitoring unit

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

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  reintegration

A  the learning of criminal mores and behaviors in prison

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 increased focus on rehabilitation in the adult system

A  Children require safeguards in juvenile court.

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

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

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

A  detector role

B  enforcer role

C  enabler role

D  broker role

A  informal adjustment

B  outright dismissal

C  filing of a petition

D  consent decree

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

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

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

A  state or private training school

B  institutionalization in a mental hospital

C  community-based residential program

D  day-treatment program

A  Pena v. New York State Division for Youth

B  In re Gault

C  Morales v. Turman

D  Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck

A  minimum standards for visitation during solitary confinement

B  minimum standards for delivering medical and psychiatric care

C  minimum standards for delivering vocational education

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

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  The press may report juvenile court proceedings under certain circumstances.

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

A  the cottage system

B  probation

C  diversion programs

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

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

A  drastic modifications in juvenile justice system

B  zero-dependency on technology

C  expansion of restorative justice

D  sparing use of evidence-based practices

A  determinate and mandatory sentencing

B  an integrated criminal court with a youth discount

C  decriminalization of status offenses

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 trained personnel working as probation officers.

B  There is a lack of available aftercare programs.

C  Youthful offenders are sent back to the same communities.

D  Trained probation officers are not equipped to handle offenders.