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2.10: Intro CJ Ch 2.5 Multiple Choice Questions (24)

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    1. The act or process of restoring something to its original state of being.
    2. Specific Deterrence
    3. Rehabilitation
    4. Severity
    5. Drug Court

    ______________________refers to the uneven number of non-white youth who come into contact with the juvenile justice system, as well as the uneven number of people of color who come into contact with police.

    • Cesare Beccaria
    • Disproportionate Minority Contact
    • Multiracial
    • Rehabilitation

    The belief that some races of people are better than other races.

    • Racism
    • Drug Court
    • Celerity
    • Individual Racism

    A situation that occurs when one person is treated less favorably than another because of his or her race.

    • Drug Court
    • Incapacitation
    • General Deterrence
    • Racial Discrimination

    Racism stemming from a person’s attitudes and beliefs about other races.

    • Cesare Beccaria
    • NAACP
    • Individual Racism
    • Racism

    Constituting multiple racial groups.

    • Drug Court
    • Multiracial
    • Certainty
    • Deterrence

    Constituting multiple ethnic groups.

    • Specific Deterrence
    • Drug Court
    • Multiethnic
    • Racism

    A psychological state sufficient for a person to be worthy of blame for a criminal act, such as acting intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently.

    • Multiracial
    • Severity
    • Incapacitation
    • Culpable Mental State

    The corrections goal of removing the ability of the offender to commit future crimes.

    • Rational Choice Theory
    • Incapacitation
    • Restitution
    • Individual Racism

    Money paid to the victim of a crime as part of a criminal sanction.

    • Institutional Racism
    • Specific Deterrence
    • Restitution
    • Multiethnic

    Swiftness of movement; As an element of rational choice theory, the term is used to indicate that punishment should administered swiftly to be effective.

    • Culpable Mental State
    • Recidivism
    • Certainty
    • Celerity

    The systematic weighing positive consequences against negative consequences in decision making.

    • Specific Deterrence
    • Cost Benefit Analysis
    • General Deterrence
    • Institutional Racism

    The perspective that people choose a particular course of action when they perceive that the benefits of the action outweigh the costs.

    • Culpable Mental State
    • Rational Choice Theory
    • Racial Discrimination
    • Incapacitation

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization founded in 1909.

    • Racial Discrimination
    • NAACP
    • Severity
    • Restitution

    A type of deterrence based on the idea that the individual offender will be dissuaded from future criminality by experiencing punishment.

    • Celerity
    • Specific Deterrence
    • Rational Choice Theory
    • Cesare Beccaria

    The idea that the punishment for a crime should be just severe enough to offset the benefit of committing it.

    • Certainty
    • Severity
    • Racism
    • Institutional Racism

    A type of deterrence based on the premise that society in general will avoid crime because of the example of those that have been punished.

    • Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
    • Institutional Racism
    • Multiracial
    • General Deterrence

    Racial inequalities that result from institutional policies and procedures.

    • Disproportionate Minority Contact
    • Incapacitation
    • Institutional Racism
    • Recidivism

    A relapse into criminal behavior; an important measure of how good of a job probation, parole, and prison programs are doing at rehabilitating offenders.

    • Severity
    • Celerity
    • Multiethnic
    • Recidivism

    In rational choice theories, used to indicate that punishments are only effective if criminals are relatively sure they will be punished.

    • Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
    • Certainty
    • Drug Court
    • Celerity

    The idea that criminal punishments will prevent future crimes because the offenders have learned from their punishments, AND that society learns from the example of the punished.

    • Racial Discrimination
    • Specific Deterrence
    • Deterrence
    • General Deterrence

    A law that reduced the disparity between sentences for possession and distribution of crack cocaine and powdered cocaine; many critics considered the disparity as racist.

    • Specific Deterrence
    • NAACP
    • Rehabilitation
    • Fair Sentencing Act of 2010

    Specialized courts with jurisdiction over drug offenses and a focus on rehabilitation and treatment.

    • Celerity
    • Restitution
    • Drug Court
    • Individual Racism

    18thC Italian philosopher that argued punishment should only be severe enough to offset the pleasure gained from committing the crime.

    • Rehabilitation
    • Cesare Beccaria
    • Certainty
    • Cost Benefit Analysis
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