Victims Right
What is the abbreviation of NVCAP?
Nationals Victims' Constitutional Accordeon Project
What is the written document describing the looses, suffering, and trauma experienced by the crime victim or by the victims survivors before sentencing.
What are Victim-Impact statements?
T/F Fines is the oldest forms of punishment
True
What is the most diversified part of the criminal process?
What is Sentencing
What is the capital of California?
What is Sacramento
Approximately how many states passed their victims rights amendments?
More than 30 states
How many states now have laws requiring citizens involvement in sentencing.
What are 20 states?
T/F: Fines can deprive offenders of the proceeds of criminal activity
True
What four sanctions dominate the thinking of judges?
What are fines, probation, imprisonment, and death.
What are the names of oceans in the world?
What are Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic Oceans
What is the abbreviation of VWPA?
What is the alternative for the written statements and to the appearance of victims at court sentencing hearings?
What is Victim-impact video?
T/F: Fines can not be made proportionate to the severity of he offense and the ability of the offender to pay
False
How may felons do state trials convict each year?
What is 1,100,00
What is the capital of New York?
What is Albany
What is the abbreviation of VOCA?
Why do victim-impact statements have little effect on courts?
Judges and other officials have established ways of making decisions that do not call for explicit info about the impact of crime on victims
T/F: Fines do not promote rehabilitation by enforcing economic responsibility
What is False
Fill in the blank: The number of criminal defendants receiving active prison time has _____
what is increased
How many sttars does the American flag have?
What is 50
Why was the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 amended in 2001?
To make victims of terrorism and their families eligible for victims compensation payments.
What year did California pass legislation giving victims a right to attend in sentencing and parole hearings?
What is 1984?
T/F: Fines are collected by criminal justice agencies and are relatively inexpensive to administer
What is True
The number of new prison commitments have declined due to what?
what is the use of alternative sanctions made necessary by skyrocketing imprisonment cost
What is the Capital of the U.S.?
What is Washington D.C.