CRM 342 - FINAL EXAM

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____constitute the largest proportion of juvenile offenses and consume a large amount of juvenile courts' time.
status offenses
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The term used to describe the level to which persons are held legally responsible for their actions is:
culpability
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Parens patriae more loosely but more correctly in a practical sense, means
state as parent
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Which landmark court decision established parens patriae as settled law in American juvenile jurisprudence?
Ex Parte Crouse
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The first juvenile court was established in which location?
Cook County, Illinois
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The burden of proof traditionally used in juvenile court has been:
preponderance of the evidence
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In principle, the juvenile court was supposed to:
emphasize an individualized approach to youthful offending
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petition
An indictment in adult court is known as a ____________ in juvenile court.
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detained
Juveniles can be _______ to adult court, where they are subject to criminal prosecution and punishments.
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The practice of waiver increased by _______ percent in the 1980s over what it was in the 1970s.
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Studies of juvenile waivers have shown that:
juveniles waived to adult courts are more likely to recidivate
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The U.S. Supreme Court maintained a ______________ policy with regard to juvenile issues until 1948.
hands-off
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Which case ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits police from obtaining confessions from juveniles?
Haley v. Ohio
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Which case provided oversight to juvenile court proceedings, shifting away from the principle of parens patriae?
Kent v. United States
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What was the sole issue before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of McKeiver v. Pennsylvania (1971)?
whether juveniles have the right to a jury trial
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Which case held that mandatory life without parole for juveniles violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition?
Miller v. Alabama
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Which case ruled that the courts must consider all factors in deciding to impose the death sentence on juveniles?
Eddings v. Oklahoma
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Which case ruled if states choose to execute juveniles who were 16/17 at the time of their crimes, it was permissible?
Stanford v. Kentucky
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What programs are a part of the restorative justice balanced approach to bring offenders and victims together?
victim-offender reconciliation
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Donald Black’s (1976) position on the relationship between formal and informal social control is that:
increasing reliance is placed on formal legal controls
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What refers to the effect of the imposed punishment on the future behavior of the person who is punished?
specific deterrence
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Which refers to the inability of incarcerated criminals to victimize people outside the prison walls?
reintegration
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Which philosophy of punishment means to restore or return to constructive or healthy activity?
rehabilitation
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Which philosophy of punishment looks to make punishment more certain, swift, and severe?
deterrence
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_______ rates are determined by dividing the number of people incarcerated per 100,000 people in the population.
incarceration
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Which of the following is true regarding the benefits of plea bargaining?
police are saved from appearances in court

judges and prosecutors have the speedy clearing of cases

victims have the benefit of certain conviction
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Support for the death penalty goes up and down with:
crime rates
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The death penalty is carried out relatively ___________ in the United States today.
rarely
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In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court move in the direction of placing limits on death penalty appeals?
Coleman v. Thompson
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The solution to biased sentencing is _______, which is neither abolition nor retention of capital punishment.
equity
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"________" consisted of the involuntary administration of drugs, and one was not "cured" until in conformity.
treatment
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Which case upheld a statute aimed at keeping certain sex offenders behind bars under civil commitment laws?
Kansas v. Hendricks
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Which of the following is a religious exception allowed by the government over the history of the United States?
conscientious objectors have been excused from military duty

the Catholic Church can deny women ordination as priests

Muslims cannot be required to transport alcohol
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Which case ruled that the company involved in the case does not have to provide contraceptive methods to its employees?
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
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Which federal act made it a felony to transport females across state lines for immoral purposes?
Mann Act
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In Roe v. Butterworth, Roe claimed that Florida’s prostitution laws:
violated her "fundamental right to privacy"
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_________ prostitution means that it becomes a legitimate occupation and that the state can regulate and tax it.
legalizing
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What simply means the removal of laws against prostitution without imposing regulatory controls on it?
decriminalization
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In which case did Justice Potter Stewart declare that he could not define obscenity, "\[b\]ut I know it when I see it"?
Jacobellis v. Ohio
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Which of the following restricted Medicaid funding for abortions to cases of rape or incest?
Hyde Amendment
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According to the text, what is the ultimate legal authority in the United States?
U.S. Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court did not assert the power of judicial review until Chief Justice John Marshall in which case?
Marbury v. Madison
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Strict constructionists look for _________”to discover what the collective intention of the Framers was”
original intent
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Strict constructionists believe that any stance other than strict constructionism leads to:
judicial activism
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In which 1937 case did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Wagner Act constitutional?
Pollock v. Farmer's Loan and Trust Company
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According to the text, legal and political equality are natural equalities due to us by virtue of our:
humanity
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Which case set the stage for jurisdiction over state legislatures, an exercise in power resisted by the states?
Fletcher v. Peck
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Which case ruled that the Court had the final word over all federal and state courts?
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee
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The U.S. Supreme Court became a major catalyst of social change under which chief justice from 1953 to 1969?
Earl Warren
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Which U.S. Supreme Court case has been called "the single most honored opinion in the Supreme Court's opus"?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court ban prayer in public schools?
Engel v. Vitale
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Which philosopher demanded equality for all men, but expressly denied it for women?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Which writer argued that women are the ones who will educate future generations?
Mary Wollstonecraft
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In the U.S., voting rights were first extended to lower class white males under the ________ reforms of the 1820s.
Jacksonian
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Which Black female orator lamented that not giving Black women the right to vote would lead to oppression?
Sojourner Truth
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Many changes for women did not occur until the 1970s when there was a resurge following on the heels of ______.
civil rights movement
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Which act was passed as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994?
Violence Against Women Act
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A series of experiments in 1982 showed that __________ resulted in a significant reduction in domestic violence.
mandatory arrest
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In which year were women admitted to the bar in all states?
1920
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By which decade were women finally being admitted to law schools and to the practice of law in larger numbers?
1970s
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Which amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbade discrimination in employment based on sex?
Title VII
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By its nature, _____ is responsive to "the will of the people"-that is, the will of the majority of the people.
democracy
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Some claim that the English case of ____________ should have been followed and all enslaved people freed.
Somerset v. Stewart
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Which case is a moral step in the direction aimed at securing the status of "we the people" for African Americans?
United States, Appellants v. The Libellants
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The practice of freeing slaves who had sojourned on free soil was based on which court case?
Scott v. Sandford
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Passed in the South, what authorized local authorities to arrest unemployed Black people and to fine them for vagrancy?
Black Codes
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What act stipulated that all persons were entitled to full access of all accommodations and facilities in public places?
Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Which type of rights involve the right to vote, hold political office, or serve on juries?
political
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In which case did a Louisiana statute require Black and white people to ride in "separate but equal" areas on trains?
Plessy v. Ferguson
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Which case interpreted literacy tests as excluding Blacks on the basis of literacy, not race?
Williams v. State of Mississippi
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Which Black leader emerged in the robust era of Jim Crowism with different ideas about how Blacks should respond?
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois
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Which early influential Black leader counseled that Blacks should aspire to higher education?
W.E. B. DuBois
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Which court case ended racial segregation in American schools?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Which act gave federal officials both the power to bring desegregation suits on behalf of individuals?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Indians were enslaved in how many of the thirteen colonies?
13
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In 1838-1839, which Native American group marched over 1,000 miles in the dead of winter, losing 25% along the way?
Cherokee
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The original seven offenses in the _______ became published yearly in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports.
Major Crimes Act of 1885
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From the time of the Dawes Act to 1934, the Indians lost approximately how much of their lands to Whites?-third
two-thirds
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From the time they arrived in the United States, which group was subjected to special taxes?
Chinese
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The U.S. Congress passed which act in 1882 to limit immigration from "undesirable" European countries?
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Which case ruled that although interment was constitutionally suspect, it was justified during wartime?
Korematsu v. United States
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Which Texas immigration case put an end to disenfranchisement efforts against Hispanics?
In re Rodriguez
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Which case unanimously rule that the Fourteenth Amendment rights extend to all racial/ethnic groups?
Hernandez v. Texas
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Which of these prohibited illegal aliens from obtaining social services such as health care and public education?
Save Our State Initiative
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Which case denied Indian tribal sovereignty criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians in Indian country?
Oliphant v. Suquamish
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Asians have gone from being loathed as the "yellow peril" to being lauded as the:
model minority
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Why was property crime rare among the Inuit?
there was very little worth stealing
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One alternate tactic that avoided bloodshed was a mechanism of self-redress among the Inuits called the:
song duel
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Which nature of common law stems from the "trial by combat" method of settling disputes in medieval times?
adversarial
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What refers to the judiciary's examination of the legality of the actions and decisions the government?
judicial review
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Which country's system may be characterized as a crime control system?
France
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A French trial, in a sense, takes place with an unspoken:
presumption of probably guilty
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In a(n) ____ society, the state and the laws that support it would “wither away”
socialist
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Which ancient Chinese philosopher expressed the attitude toward law that has pervaded Chinese thinking for centuries?
Confucius
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Which of the following is true of interrogation in a Chinese trial?
the defendant does not have the right to remain silent

the victim or the victim's representatives may interrogate the defendant

the judge may interrogate the defendant
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The average length of time a person sentenced to death waits until execution in China is:
two months
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What country's law is a hybrid of the inquisitorial and adversarial systems, with strong emphasis on the former?
Saudi Arabia
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Under Islamic law, usually a person can receive the penalty of death for which of the following hudud crimes?
apostasy (abandonment of, or renunciation of a religion by a person)
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Under Islamic law, a free person may receive __________ for drinking alcohol.
80 lashes
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What is the court of final appeals among the nations of the European Union?
European Court of Human Rights