Exam 1: Criminal Justice Today

The chief law enforcement officer of most counties is the __________________.

________ investigate most crimes and attempt to deter crime through patrol activities.

__________ is the most common correctional treatment.

A __________ is defined as wrong against society proclaimed by law and,if committed under certain circumstances,punishable by society.

The United States has a ____ court system.

Wildlife wardens,alcohol and beverage control agents,and fire marshals are examples of law enforcement officers at the ____ level.

Justice is an easy concept to define.

Fairness,not efficiency,is the ultimate goal of the due process model.

This model emphasizes the right of society to be protected from crime and violent criminals.

Morals are principles of right and wrong behavior,as practiced by individuals or by society.

Criminal ??_____ reflects those acts that we,as a society,agree are so unacceptable that steps must be taken to prevent them from occurring.

Herbert Packer likened the idealized criminal justice system to a(n):

Community supervision that occurs after release from jail or prison is called:

A dual court system means that there are

Which statement below is incorrect?

_________is behavior that is considered to go against the norms established by society.

The ____________________ model places primacy on the right of the individual to be protected from the power of the government.

Once the court system convicts and sentences an offender,he or she is delegated to the __________ systems.

The framers of the U.S.Constitution,fearful of tyranny and a too-powerful central government chose the system of __________ as a compromise.

Discretionary decisions made my criminal justice professionals are said to produce an ____________________ that does not operated within the rigid confines of formal rules and laws.