Quiz 3

A  separate them from their peers

B  provide treatment

C  initiate victim restitution

D  punish their sins

A  station adjustment

B  cycle of alienation

C  search and seizure

D  police discretion

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

B  ensuring that trials are concluded without continuances

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

D  providing effective post-dispositions to each youth

A  recidivism

B  just deserts

C  guided group interaction

D  behavioral therapy

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

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

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

D  Their rights to legal counsel and to intelligently enter a plea are suspended.

A  conducts a fact-finding study on the youth

B  provides the best possible supervision and counseling to the youth

C  screens referral to the court carefully

D  maintains a file on each probationer

A  Referral to a diversion agency

B  Detention

C  Station adjustment

D  Citation and referral to juvenile court

A  right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment

B  right to trial by jury

C  right to treatment

D  right to access to the courts

A  a halfway house

B  Outward Bound

C  a day-treatment center

D  house arrest

A  restoration of law and order

B  fairness for victims in the system

C  rehabilitation of criminals

D  change in behavior or attitude

A  the seriousness of the alleged offense to the community

B  the sophistication and maturity of the juvenile

C  the cross-examination of witnesses

D  the prosecutorial merit of the complaint

A  judicial waiver

B  revocation

C  disposition hearing

D  statutory exclusion

A  detention center

B  home detention

C  attention homes

D  shelter care

A  that victims have access to services they need

B  that cases are diverted to alternative systems

C  that all court staff is adequately trained to handle it

D  that it is individualized and includes graduated sanctions

A  Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

B  Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 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  adjudicatory hearing

B  dispositional hearing

C  petition

D  aftercare

A  lower-class youth

B  rural youth

C  urban youth

D  white youth

A  Crime would ultimately be reduced.

B  The system would be unmanageable.

C  Crime would likely remain constant

D  The cost of justice would likely be reduced.

A  double jeopardy

B  right to remain silent

C  right to notice of charges

D  right to a jury trial

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

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

C  Law Enforcement Education (LRE)

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

A  It is usually studied together with race.

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

C  Socioeconomic statistics are not gathered.

D  It is not related to crime.

A  boot camps

B  reception and diagnostic centers

C  ranches and wilderness camps

D  public training schools

A  Miranda reading

B  intervention

C  fingerprinting

D  interrogation

A  global positioning system

B  victim notification system

C  group monitoring unit

D  identity verification 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  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.”

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 learning of criminal mores and behaviors in prison

D  the increased likelihood of juvenile victimization in the adult system

A  Children require safeguards in juvenile court.

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

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

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

A  enforcer role

B  detector role

C  enabler role

D  broker role

A  outright dismissal

B  consent decree

C  informal adjustment

D  filing of a petition

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

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

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

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

A  institutionalization in a mental hospital

B  state or private training school

C  day-treatment program

D  community-based residential program

A  Pena v. New York State Division for Youth

B  Inmates of the Boys’ Training School v. Affleck

C  Morales v. Turman

D  In re Gault

A  minimum standards for delivering medical and psychiatric care

B  minimum standards for delivering vocational education

C  minimum standards for visitation during solitary confinement

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  half-way houses

C  diversion programs

D  probation

A  aggression replacement training

B  multisystemic therapy

C  intensive supervision programs

D  family-integrated transitions

A  Make training schools safer and more humane.

B  Limit the enormous discretion granted to juvenile justice practitioners.

C  Decriminalize status offenses.

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

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

B  American Indian youths are less likely than African American or Asian American youths to be arrested for alcohol offenses.

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

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  expansion of restorative justice

C  drastic modifications in juvenile justice system

D  zero-dependency on technology

A  decriminalization of status offenses

B  determinate and mandatory sentencing

C  an integrated criminal court with a youth discount

D  transferring juveniles to the adult court for all proceedings

A  to improve police-juvenile relations

B  to reduce drug use

C  to reduce gang membership

D  to teach law-related education

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.