Exam 14: Understanding and Predicting the Future of Criminal Justice

Which of the following was NOT an important factor in the origins of transnational organized crime?

Due process model advocates generally agree that prosecutors and judges can predict accurately which defendants actually pose a significant threat and which do not.

Due process model advocates believe that the ____ is a critical stage in the administration of justice.

Your text names three possible ways in which future American criminal courts may be forced to adapt their routines and personnel to those changing demographics.Name these.

Juvenile courts are currently:

Perhaps the most divisive issue that will confront correctional policy makers in the future is whether increasingly scarce resources should be devoted more to ____ or to ____.

Today,the preliminary hearing is used mostly for testing evidence against the defendant.

There is no universally agreed-upon definition of "transnational organized crime."

Which of the following amendments to the U.S.Constitution will have to be respected and will no doubt set the outer limits of what corrections in the future might be?

If the crime control model dominates the future,criminal courts will probably have to handle an increasing number of juvenile offenders.

Which of the following is NOT one of the offenses criminalized by the protocols of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime?

It is conceivable that sometime in the future the entire juvenile justice system could be eliminated entirely.

Which of the following supporters maintain that a crafty lawyer may be able to win the freedom of a factually guilty client by means of a legal technicality?

Participatory justice is a form of:

Why is it unlikely that plea bargaining will ever be completely eliminated from the American court system?

In the future,the types of cases routinely heard in criminal courts are likely to change somewhat,to reflect more strongly the problems confronted by the elderly.

Advocates of the crime control model consider ____ at any stage,other than perhaps at trial,a luxury and an unnecessary impediment to the efficient operation of the process.

What to identity-theft victims want the police to do about the problem?

In practice,the ____ is a sham because it has become nothing more than a rubber stamp for the prosecutor.

If the crime control model dominates the future of the administration of justice,it is likely that ____-following the few trials that occur-will be strongly discouraged and limited.