Exam 8: Social Class and the Law

____________ are those crimes committed disproportionately by the poor.

The ___________ perspective argues that the criminal law (and thus its enforcement) serves the interests of the powerful over the people.

The _______________ created a number of programs including unemployment compensation and Aid to Dependent Children, which was aimed at preventing family disruption due to poverty.

Briefly discuss the three pieces of legislation that made up the New Deal Legislation of the 1930s.

The recent economic recession of 2008 was identified as a _________ by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

______________ refer(s) to a prior conviction resulting in a drastic increase in punishment for any subsequent conviction.

In ___________, the Supreme Court held that any and all crimes that carry the possibility of imprisonment qualify an indigent defendant for an attorney.

What evidence is there that, as court fees increase to help defer the costs of adjudication, it is the poor who pay the most?

_________________ refer to all of the civil restrictions that follow from a criminal conviction.

The practices of sending inmates off to work in quarries and mines was known as what?

Prohibiting persons who would otherwise be eligible to vote if not for their criminal conviction is referred to as what?

Which amendment grants the protections that make up part of what we refer to as due process?

Sheldon (2007) suggested that social class helps determine:

Sheldon (2007) claimed that the criminal justice system is a tool used to control poor, young minorities, which he termed ____________.

Which of the following is true regarding the label of crime, according to Reiman and Leighton (2013)?

Blacks are _______ times more likely to lose their voting rights.

The ability of police officers, prosecutors, and judges to exercise discretion for specific crimes has been eliminated due to ___________ policies.

In ___________, the Supreme Court held that, even in felony cases in state courts, the Sixth Amendment requires that a defendant enjoy the right of assistance to counsel.

Which of the following would contradict the argument that building prisons creates jobs in small towns and that inmates who work while incarcerated leave prison with marketable job skills?

The first major Constitutional challenge for the right to obtain counsel was ____________, which extended the necessity for counsel in capital cases.