A juvenile is adjudicated delinquent by a juvenile court, then a separate hearing is held to determine what the punishment or treatment, or a combination of both will be. This is known as a ___ process.
a. separate
b. conjoined
c. nexus
d. bifurcated
d. bifurcated
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______ involves a study of the legal standards governing the detection, investigation, and prosecution of crime.
a. Substantive criminal law b. Criminal procedure c. Substantive criminal procedure d. Law school
One of the main difficulties in subjecting deterrence theory to scientific testing is:
a. the theory is more a policy prescription than criminological theory. b. scientific technique are not advanced enough to fully embrace the theory. c. it is difficult to construct clearly defined (measurable) and concepts and fully specified (testable) hypotheses. d. there are too many religious or supernatural ideas in deterrence theory.
The American ideology of free enterprise stresses two goals: the pursuit of profits and open competition among sellers
a. True b. False
What happens when probation is revoked? a. The probation contract is terminated and the original sentence is imposed
b. The judgment is deferred until such time as the defendant is rehabilitated. c. The suspended sentence is held in abeyance and the defendant is subject to mandatory participation in a pretrial diversion program. d. The probation contract is extended and a prison term is imposed.