Chat with AIExam 14: Prison Life
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)has identified five significant developments that have taken place over the past decade with significant executive or legislative actions.List and define three of those five developments.
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VerifiedTransfer provisions -laws that make it easier to transfer juvenile offenders from the juvenile justice system to the criminal justice system.
Sentencing authority -laws that give criminal and juvenile.
courts expanded sentencing options,such as blended sentences,in cases involving juveniles
Confidentiality changes -modifications to laws containing court confidentiality provisions in order to make juvenile records and proceedings more open.
Victims' rights -new laws that increase the role of victims of juvenile crime in the juvenile justice process.
Correctional programming -the development of new programs in adult and juvenile facilities to handle juveniles sentenced as adults or as violent juvenile offenders.
The combination of the government agencies that function to investigate,supervise,adjudicate,care for,or confine youthful offenders and other children subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court is known as the _________________.
(82) VerifiedJuvenile Justice System
Discuss the causes of prison riots.What steps can corrections take to eliminate or minimize riots in the future?
(68) VerifiedAn insensitive prison administration that neglects inmates' demands.Calls for "fairness" in disciplinary hearings,better food,more recreational opportunities,and the
like may lead to riots when ignored.The lifestyles most inmates are familiar with on the streets.
It should be no surprise that prisoners use organized violence
when many of them are violent people.
Dehumanizing prison conditions.Overcrowded facilities,the lack of opportunity for individual expression,and other aspects of total institutions culminate in explosive situations,including riots.
A desire to regulate inmate society and redistribute power balances among inmate groups.Riots provide the opportunity to "cleanse" the prison population of informers and rats and to resolve struggles among power brokers and ethnic groups within the institution.
"Power vacuums" created by changes in prison administration,the transfer of influential inmates,or court ordered injunctions that significantly alter the informal social control mechanisms of the institution.
Few women's prisons have programs specifically designed for female offenders.
(79) ___________ is the first step in decision making regarding a juvenile whose behavior or alleged behavior is in violation of the law or could otherwise cause a juvenile court to assume jurisdiction.
(85) Career female offenders who have adapted to prison life and generally keep to themselves are known as the:
(81) Brown v.Plata was a 2011 landmark case from California that dealt with:
(97) Judges are the only officials authorized to conduct detention hearings
(85) The number of prisoners __________ increased more than 400% between 1990 and 2010.
(84) ______________ is a policy of nonintervention with regard to prison management that U.S.courts tended to follow until the late 1960s.For the past 40 years,the doctrine has languished as judicial intervention in prison administration dramatically increased.
(75) The final stage in the processing of adjudicated juveniles in which a decision is made on the form of treatment or penalty is the ________ hearing.
(87) Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.
-Delinquent children
(80) Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.
-Abused children
(85) List and define the three different lifestyles researcher Esther Heffernan found as indicative of lifestyle adaptation in female prisons.
(89) Permanent organizational and structural modifications intended to alter the juvenile justice system,including the closing of facilities and the elimination of agencies is a strategy for future treatment of juveniles known as:
(75) Which of the following is not one of the six categories of children in the juvenile justice system?
(76) A principle,developed by the courts and applied to the corrections arena by Pell v.Procunier (1974),that attempts to weigh the rights of an individual,as guaranteed by the Constitution,against the authority of states to make laws or to otherwise restrict a person's freedom in order to protect the state's interests and its citizens is commonly known as the _______________ test.
(77) Children who violate the criminal law are considered to be:
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