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Half of the women in prison today under mandatory sentencing laws have been convicted of...

Conspiracy

Who believed that the law should accomplish some utilitarian purpose

Jeremy Bentham

Who was the English Sheriff who advocated jail reform

John Howard

Which researchers found that women in prison coat by establishing homosexual relationships

Ward and kassebaum

A grouping of unrelated individuals who have assumed the traditional family roles of mother father and grandparents is known as a...

Fictive

Before sentencing takes place in a felony case it is common for the courts probation staff to conduct a...

Pre-sentence report

What is the term used to describe any behavior that can bring trouble or conflict with staff and other prisoners

The mix

Sentences with fixed term of years to serve are known as...

Determinants

The most widely used type of sentence today is...

Intermediate

Which Supreme Court case held that Federal sentencing guidelines can be taken into consideration by federal judges but that they no longer had to be regarded as mandatory

United States vs Booker

Who developed the Irish Mark system where inmates could eventually earn early release

Walter Crofton

Which style gives female inmates the feeling that they have no control over their prison environment

Isolate Style

Who felt strongly about the merits of the Reformatory model

Zebulon Brockway

Which was the first institution to pay wages to prisoners as a reward for diligence and productivity

Elmira Reformatory

What fraction of female prisoners in state prisons have children under the age of 18

3/5

Female prisoners are more likely than male prisoners to cope with their issues through

Destructive Acts

List of the views of inmates rights

Legalistic / due process View, Crime Control View, and humanistic View

The justice system is expensive to run because it employs more than

2.4 million

The body of the Constitution and the first 10 amendments are the main sources of...

Procedural law

The 4th amendment

Bars illegal searches and seizures

The three-strike law was first passed in this state

California

The Fifth Amendment

Limits admissibility of confessions that have been obtained unfairly

The 6th Amendment

Guarantees a defendant the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury

8th Amendment

Amendment that bars excessive bail or excessive fines imposed as well as cruel and unusual punishment

The 14th Amendment

Affirms that no state may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

Probation began in 1841 with the volunteer services of who

John Augustus

What jurisdiction was the first to implement probation as a form of criminal sanction

Massachusetts

The most common form of criminal sanction during the 20th century was

Probation

The body of judicial precedent that is built on legal reasoning and previous interpretations of statutory laws is known as

Case law

Habeas corpus has been called

The great writ of Liberty

When a precedent establishes an important principle it is known as a

Landmark decision

The case determined that unannounced cell searches were necessary for security and Order

Bell vs. wolfish

How many probationers are felons

Half

During the 1980s and 1990s many large Correctional and Community Supervision agencies adopted new policies that were known as a

Risk management system

Research shows that risk-need-responsivity (RNR) model can cut recidivism of high risk offenders by as much as ____ percent

20%

The US has how many adult probation agencies

2000

Disclosure of PSI to defense counsel in a death penalty case was held permissible by the US Supreme Court case...

Gardiner vs Florida

The US Supreme Court held that probationers have fewer constitutional protections and the general public and specifically that their homes can be searched without a warrant in the case

Griffin vs Wisconsin

Emotion suspending the remainder of a sentence after serving a period of time in prison is

Shock probation

A type of probation in which the probationer is not supervised

Bench probation

Intensive supervised probation ISP was started in

Georgia

Which of the following is the most intrusive sanction according to the Continuum of intermediate sanctions

Boot camp

How much money is collected each year in the United States from fines paid by criminal offenders

Over 1 billion

When the offender most often pays into a victims fund for damages caused by the crime it is known as

Restitution

A person who protects citizens against governmental abuse is known as a

Corrections ombudsman

Where was the first drug court implemented

Miami Florida

What percent of the detainees in most jails are misdemeanants who couldn't make bail

50%

The bail Reform movement is most closely linked with

The Manhattan bail project

Prisons in the US cost taxpayers how much annually

40 billion