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24 Cards in this Set
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Legal Guilt
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guilty of committing crime and can be held criminally responsible.
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Chapter 9
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Presumption of Innocence
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state must prove guilty for every element of the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt
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Chapter 9
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Capital case juror
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Vior dire questioniong
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Chapter 9
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Affirmative defense of self defense
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defendant must reasonable believe such force was necessary for his own protection
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Chapter 9
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Not a possible verdict given by a jury
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Incompetent to stand trial
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Chapter 9
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Incapacitation
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as long as the offender is in prision, he or she is not out in the community breaking the law
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Chapter 10
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Sentencing hearings
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usually occurs immediately after the verdict is read in minor criminal cases or county/city ordinance violations |
Chapter 10
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Determinate Sentencing
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provides the judge with the least discretion in choosing an appropriate sentence for the offender
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Writ of Habeas Corpus
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effectively challenges the conviction sentencing or conditions of the confinement |
chapter 10
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The precipitating factors of suicides in jails are that jails are conductive to sucidial behavior and: |
imates are facing crsis situations
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Chapter 11
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Inmates who tequire special care and attention in jail including physically and mentally ill immates alcoholics and disabled inmates
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Special Managaemtn Populations
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Chapter 11
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Philidelphia Soicety for Alleviating the Miniseries of Public Prisons
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Penitentiaries were created as a substitute for capital punishment for many less serious crimes |
Chapter 11
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Pennsylvania system of corrections
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Prison cells were spacious enough to allow offenders room for performing manual labor eating and exercise
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Chapter 11 |
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Early US Prisons
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maximum security |
Chpater 11
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Incarceration rates of women
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proportion has increased at a faster rate than that of men
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Chapter 12 |
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Alleviatong overcrowding in prisons
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pretrial diversin options
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Chapter 12 |
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percentage of inmates that enter the system with a preexsisting drug issue |
more than 80%
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chapter 12
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Advantage to house arrest |
can be easily implemented at any time
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Chapter 13 |
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disadvantage to house arrest
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may not serve as a deterrent for future crimes
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Chapter 13
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First juvenile court in chicago illinois
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1899
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chapter 14
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removal of an offender from the criminal justice system y channeling him or her into a casework, mental health, or other type of agency
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diversion
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Guilty Verdict in Juvenile Court
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finding of involvement
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Chapter 14 |
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Final stage in the processing of adjudicated juveniles in which a decision is made on the form of treatment or pentalty that should be imposed upon the child
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disposition
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chapter 14
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acts declare by statute to be offenses when committed by juveniles and which can be adjudicated in a juvenile court
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status offenses
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