________ prosecution diversion occurs when an offender has been charged but the actual in-court prosecution is held off until the offender completes treatment or some other program

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Deferred

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Of the key requirements for an effective deterrence system, __________ is likely to be achieved only by restricting the due process currently provided to defendants

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Explain assertion-centered statements and declarant-centered states as the two categories of hearsay

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1. Drug Court a. A specialized court that increases sex offenders' accountability, enhancing community safety and ensuring victim safety 2. Domestic Violence Court b. A court designed with the ultimate goal of reducing recidivism and prison return rates 3. Community Court c. A specialized court designed to bring together the justice system and mental health agencies 4. Reentry Court d. A court that focuses on tailoring interventions to meeting the needs of victims, closely monitoring the offender, and enlisting community participation 5. Specialized Court e. A court that specializes in traffic violations and incidents 6. Traffic Court f. A problem-solving court with specialized jurisdictions 7. Sex Offense Court g. A specialized court represented to take guns more seriously with early intervention, short-term intensive programs, and an educational focus 8. Mental Health Court h. A special court that offers first-time offenders substance abuse offenders judicially mandated and court-supervised treatment alternatives to prison 9. Gun Court i. A specialized court whose purpose is to resolve outstanding issues with homeless people and attempts to eliminate obstacles to their reintegration into society 10. Homeless Court j. A neighborhood-focused court that attempts to harness the power of the justice system to address local problems

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Maximum-security prisons represent the most secure form of incarceration in the United States 2. Among the concerns related to supermax prisons is the high degree of isolation and the constitutionality of such institutions. 3. The inspector general’s report found that private prisons had higher instances of safety and security violations compared to publicly-funded prisons in the federal system. 4. he primary purposes of prisons are to hold people accused of crimes until their court dates and to hold people convicted of lesser offenses who were sentenced to less than one year of incarceration. 5. The Safe Prisons Communications Act, which was signed into law in 2009, allows prisons to jam wireless telephone communication signals in an effort to combat inmate use of cell phones.

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