CH 6: Prosecutors and Crime Control

Crime Control Strategies

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