Exam 9: The Ethics of Criminal Justice Policy Making

Tong (1986)explains that cost-benefit analysis comprises all of the following stages except ______.

Policy analysis that focuses on the plusses and minuses of the proposed policy (with little or no concern about ethical issues)is called ______ analysis.

Examples of moral panics include ______.

Researchers have identified the ideology of ______ as fostering punitive punishment policies.

During the 1990s,which group emerged as a distinct and dangerous criminal class?

______ have unlimited discretion to incarcerate and to act in concert with punitive local public opinion because they do not have to attend to the ultimate cost of offenders' stay in prisons.Local counties do not pay for state prisons; they are paid for by individuals' federal tax dollars.

A Time/CNN poll conducted in 1994 reported that ______% of adults favored mandatory life imprisonment for persons convicted of a third serious crime.

The consequences of truth in ______ laws are often criticized on ethical grounds.

Public opinion on the "new" penal sanctions,like "three-strikes" sentencing laws, indicates that ______.

The characterization that "strangers" were of more concern was made despite the fact that only about ______% of sexual abuse offenses against children and about ______% of child murders are committed by strangers.

Federally funded "justice reinvestment" initiatives were enacted to improve state crime policies to reduce mass incarceration.Why do scholars think that U.S. Incarceration rates have been largely unaffected?

What did Tonry (2011)identify as a major precipitator of the severity of modern criminal justice policies and the unfair burdens they place on Black Americans?

The War on Drugs is an example of morality policy making based on a moral panic which has led to ______.

Scholars have identified the ideology of ______ as fostering punitive punishment policies.

States have tended to follow the U.S.Sentencing Commission guidelines,which are currently ______ and which,until recently,set very lengthy sentences.

Which of the following is not a moral or ethical argument in opposition to the death penalty?

The corrections industry has become a major state employer.One in 8 state employees work in corrections.

In formulating criminal justice policy on issues of morality policy making,policy makers should ______,

Which court case held that the imposition of the death penalty for cases of child rape was unconstitutional?

Brutally remorseless,radically impulsive and extremely dangerous youngsters who continually commit violent crimes are referred to as ______.