In 1916, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved the issue of whether the courts had the power to indefinitely suspend sentences in which of the following cases?

A. Killits
B. Case
C. Gagnon
D. Pate


Answer: A

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a. power. b. employment. c. anomie. d. peers.

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What are the two parties to crime that exist today?

a. accomplices participants and accessories participants b. accomplices participants and annulments participants c. arrangements participants and accessories participants d. accomplices participants and arrangements participants

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Boot camps are a form of:

a. pretrial diversion. b. shock incarceration. c. intensive probation supervision. d. split sentence.

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Under the due process model, the most important function of the criminal justice system is to:

a. repress criminal conduct. b. ensure that an individual's rights are not violated. c. reintegrate newly released convicts back into society. d. convict as many criminal defendants as possible. e. none of the above.

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