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Which program was designed to promote local and federal coordination to find creative ways to reduce gun violence?
Project Safe Neighborhoods
____ marks a departure from the traditional role a prosecutor has played
Strategic Prosecution
Federal prosecutors are known as…
US Attorneys
Which of the following crimes prompted Richmond’s Project Exile?
Gun-Related Homicides
Which of the following is not part of Project Safe Neighborhoods?
prohibiting public announcements
Plea bargaining benefits the prosecutor because it provides an option to…
dispose of a heavy case load
Plea bargaining might undermine the criminal process by deciding that a defendant is guilty without…
a trial
San Diego’s prosecutors once sought restraining orders against _______ in order to drive them away from businesses
Prostitutes
The delay of filing criminal prosecution against a suspect until he or she completes a treatment program is known as…
Deferred Prosecution
Historically, ______ occupied a secondary position in the criminal justice process
Victims
Approximately _____ of guilty pleas are the result of plea bargaining
90 percent
District attorneys are the _______ chief prosecutor for a local government unit
Elected
__________ prosecution is sometimes referred to as evidence-based prosecution and has been primarily applied to domestic violence cases.
No-drop
Prosecutors sometimes defer criminal charges or sentencing in an effort to minimize the _________ that often puts offenders back on the streets without any meaningful intervention, treatment, or prevention component
“revolving doors”
Project Safe Neighborhoods is a strategy designed to promote local and federal government coordination to combat gun violence
True
Community prosecution seeks to improve communications between prosecutors and
community members such as business leader
True
If offenders in the Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison (DTAP) failed the program, they were not allowed to start over
False
Ad Hoc plea bargaining involves an unauthorized form of punishment by the court
True
Deferred prosecution involves the delayed filing of criminal charges against a suspect while that individual is completing a treatment program
True
Community prosecution is an approach that is intended to improve cooperation and
collaboration between prosecutors and individuals specifically inside the criminal justice system
False
Plea bargaining has no effect on case attrition within the court system
False
Plea bargaining doesn’t benefit all members of the courtroom workgroup, but it does benefit the majority
False
Cross-Designation prosecution cannot utilize local prosecutors in federal courts
False
