Policing
“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you."
What is Miranda rights
The impact of the threat of legal punishment on the public at large
What is general deterrence
What aims to prevent further criminal behavior by physically restraining the offender from engaging in future misconduct?
What is incapacitation
Who argued in 1996 that the institution of policing has been viewed as either a profession or a bureaucracy?
Who is Kleinig
Favorite D Word
What is discretion?
What is the three dominant characteristics of police culture?
What is cynicism, Force, Police are victims
What is the lawyer’s objectives derived from this system that equates justice with protection of rights?
What is the adversarial system
What aims to prevent crime through the example of offenders being punished?
What is detterence
Who suggests a plea bargaining used so often because of the complexity of trial proceedings?
Who is Gerber
What is her favorite number to put on an exam?
What is 4
Three things shape role of ethics in policing
What is styles of policing, the police as an institution, and police culture?
Lawyers play a role in ensuring others within the system do their job properly and ethically.
What is a reason for defending someone who is “guilty”
What should be made into their own category because it’s not a punishment, but a correction?
What is rehabilitation
Who argued in 1996 that police discretion has no rightful place in a free society?
Who is Reiman
Just Desserts
What is “you just deserve punishment”
Introduced in the 1970s as a supposedly humane alternative to force.
What are Tazers?
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.
What is The Eighth Amendment
What makes it possible for accurate predictions of prison populations and can prison populations be controlled by modifying the guidelines?
What is sentencing guidelines
Who was the Ohio teenager who committed acts of vandalism in Singapore, was sentenced to four months in prison, fined $2,320, and given six lashes with a wet rattan cane, prompting the U.S. State Department to protest that the punishment was too severe?
Who is Michael Fay
When you walk into the classroom, you have to be ________
What is a good person
Absent significant social change, police culture unlikely to be impacted by radical change
Loftus (2010)
Proposes most common method of avoiding the problem is for the lawyer to withdraw from the case
What is Freedman’s
What one word belongs in all of these sentences?
_________ occurs when offenders with similar histories commit similar crimes but receive widely different sentences
_______ must be expected when there is little agreement regarding what a sentence should accomplish
A result of _______ has been a trend toward mandatory and fixed sentences.
What is disparity
Who was the mother of four children, pregnant with a fifth, who was convicted of three counts of child abuse and sentenced to a year in jail, followed by implantation of a birth-control device to prevent further pregnancies?
Who is Darlene Johnson
What happens when she asks a question
What is answer it