CJ 100
Introduction to Criminal Justice
Summer 2002
Instructor: Bob Sigler 348-7781 553-3897 rsigler@cj.as.ua.edu
Home page: bama.ua.edu/~rsigler/home
Office hours: after class
Text: The American System of Criminal Justice, 9h edition, Cole
and Smith, West/Wadsworth Publishing Co.
June 4 Chapter 1 Crime and Criminal Justice
5 Chapter 2 Crime and victimization
6 Chapter 3 Criminal Law
7 First exam
10 Chapter 4 History of Law Enforcement
11 Chapter 5 Organization, Role, and Function
12 Chapter 6 Issues in Policing
13 Chapter 7 Courts Second exam
17 Chapter 8 Prosecution
18 Chapter 9 Pretrial Procedures
19 Chapter 10 Trial
20 Chapter 11 Punishment and Sentencing Third Exam
24 Chapter 12 History of Corrections
25 Chapter 13 Probation & Intermediate Sanctions
26 Chapter 14 Correctional Management
27 Chapter 15 Living in Prison Term paper due
1 Chapter 16 Returning to Society
2 Chapter 17 Juvenile Justice
3 Fourth Exam
Course Requirements
Exams 80%
Term Paper 20%
l00%
Term Paper
The term paper will be about l0-15 (about 3,000 words) pages in length. It will focus on any issue in criminal justice. Due June 27.
Class Format
This class is a lecture/discussion class. Specific chapters are assigned for each day. Students will ask questions about the reading assignments at the beginning of each class period. When the questions have been discussed, enrichment material will be presented by the instructor and discussed.
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justice
fourth Exam--Summer 2001 Form 1
1. A ____________________________________________________________________ is a sentence of incarceration for a fixed period of time, but with possible reduction by parole.
2. The ________________________________________________________________ is a form of prison industry in which the labor of inmates is leased to an outside contractor, who furnishes the machinery and raw materials and supervises the work.
3. The ____________________________________________________________ is a central receiving institution where all felony offenders sentenced to a term of imprisonment are committed for orientation and classification.
4. _____________________________________________________________________ is a situation in which inmates are confined to their cells around the clock, denied exercise, work, recreation, and visits.
5. In _____________________________________________________________ there is a brief incarceration followed by suspension of sentence and probation.
6. The ______________________________________________________________ is the stage in juvenile court proceedings in which it is determined whether a child is to be released to a parent or guardian or retained in custody.
7. ___________________________________________________________________ and ministers are usually not accepted as personal friends by most people.
8. You must always consider _news media__public opinion__publicity ________ when you attempt to understand the operations of the justice system.
9. _________________________________________________________________ is a sentence given instead of prison and the case remains under the control of the court.
10. The smallest group of children in the juvenile court are the
_____________________________________________________________________________
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justice
fourth Exam--Summer 2001 Form 2
1. ________________________________________________________________ is the right of a convicted offender to address the court personally prior to the imposition of sentence.
2. The _______________________________________________________________ of criminal law and criminology is a body of ideals from Enlightenment philosophers and reformers for transforming criminal law and procedure.
3. ______________________________________________________________ is a 3 to 6 month regimen of military drill, drug treatment, physical exercise, hard labor, and academic work in return for having several years removed from an inmate’s sentence.
4. ______________________________________________________________ is the loss of all civil rights.
5. A _______________________________________________________________ is a court disposition of a convicted person pronouncing a penalty of a fine or commitment to confinement, but unconditionally discharging the defendant or holding execution of the penalty in abeyance upon good behavior.
6. The _______________________________________________________________ is the stage in juvenile courts proceedings in which a judge presides on behalf of the child to determine if he or she actually committed the alleged offense.
7. Police isolation is caused by the tendency for the average critizen to ___________________________________________________________________________
8. You must always consider _________________________________________________ when you attempt to understand the operations of the justice system.
9. _____________________________________________________________________ is the release of an offender from prison before the end of his or her sentence. The case remains under the control of the state agency (corrections or parole).
10. The juvenile justice system is not set up to deal effectively with
children on its caseload who are ____________________________________________
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justice
third Exam--Summer 2001
1. _______________________________________________________________ are forms of extortion in which police officers accept money from citizens in lieu of enforcing the law.
2. When they make _______________________________________________________ police officers see certain citizens—prostitutes, drunks, members of juvenile gangs, gays, sex offenders, drug users, and hardened criminals as having little to contribute to society.
3. A __________________________________________________________________ is a new trial, on appeal from a lower court to a court of general jurisdiction.
4. When the Supreme Court __________________________________________________ a case, it has determined that the action or proceeding under review is free from reversible prejudicial or constitutional error and the judgment appealed from shall stand.
5. list three of the four types of concessions in plea bargaining:
____________________________________________________________________________.
____________________________________________________________________________.
____________________________________________________________________________.
6. In the __________________________________________________________ lawyers represent defendants on a case by case basis. Appointments are made by a presiding judge from a list that may consist of all the practicing attorneys in the jurisdiction or only those who have volunteered to defend indigents.
7. An ___________________________________________________________________ is a formal charging document drafted by a prosecutor and tested before a magistrate.
8. A motion _____________________________________________________________ is a request to have evidence excluded from consideration.
9. ___________________________________________________________________ theory provides the best perspective for understanding the courts.
10. The need for _____________________________________________________________ explains relatively short skirts on some women today.
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justice
second Exam--Summer 2001
1. A _______________________________________________________________ being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
2. The ___________________________________________________________________ is the rule that criminal laws that are unclear or uncertain as to what or to whom they apply violate due process.
3. The ________________________________________________________________ was composed of the able-bodied men of a country who were at the disposal of a sheriff when called for service.
4. ____________________________________________________________________ referred to extralegal criminal justice activities by individuals or groups who take the law into their own hands for the sake of establishing “law and order”.
5. _______________________________________________________________ assist the line staff in carrying out the basic police function, with specialized units assigned to communications, record keeping, data processing, temporary detention, laboratory studies, and supply and maintenance.
6. ___________________________________________________________________ refers to a personality characterized by authoritarianism, cynicism, and suspicion developed by police officers in response to danger and the obligation to exercise authority.
7. Field interrogation or ___________________________________________________ procedures can be a useful mechanism for police in areas where crime rates or the potential for crime are high.
8. Warrantless searches may be carried out when the person in control of the
area or object __________________________________________________________ to the search.
9. The primary purpose of the justice system is to _______________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
10. In the concept of ____________________________________________________ we agree to give up our right to do anything that we want to do whenever we want to do it in order to be protected from others who would harm us if they did what ever they wanted
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justice
first Exam--Summer 2001—form 2
1. The _____________________________________________________________ is the model of the criminal justice system that views the repression of criminal conduct as its most important function.
2. ___________________________________________________________ encompasses the series of orderly steps and actions, authorized by law or the courts, used to determine whether a person accused of a crime is guilty or not guilty.
3. ______________________________________________________________ is conduct that the people of a group consider so dangerous, embarrassing, or irritating that they bring special sanctions to bear against the persons who exhibit it.
4. _____________________________________________________________________ is the concealment of a felony committed by another.
5. ___________________________________________________________________ refers to any unlawful constraints exercised on an individual forcing him or her to consent to committing some act that would not been done otherwise.
6. ___________________________________________________________________ is the unlawful killing of another, without malice.
7. _____________________________________________________________________ is the crime in which the offender pushes or crows an individual.
8. ________________________________________________________________ is theft by false pretenses; the appropriation of money or property by trick or misrepresentation or by creating or reinforcing a false impression as to some present or past fact that would adversely affect the victim’s judgment of a transaction.
9. According to the Centers for Disease Control, ____________________________ is the leading cause of job-related death among women.
10. List three of the five factors in the new National Incident Based Reporting System.
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justic3
first Exam--Summer 2001
1. The __________________________________________________________ is the model of the criminal justice system that stresses the possibility of error in the stages leading to trial and emphasizes the protection of procedural rights over system efficiency.
2. The proportion of female inmates in state and correctional institutions
_______________________________________________________ from 1970 to 1997.
3. ________________________________________________________________ refers to general principles that determine what is right and wrong according to some higher power.
4. ____________________________________________________________ is concert in criminal purpose.
5. ________________________________________________________________ is a design or conscious decision to do something before it is actually done.
6. __________________________________________________________________ is the practice of having several spouses.
7. The ________________________________________________________________ is the sum of Part I offenses reported in a given place for a given period of time.
8. _______________________________________________________________ is a department of justice program that complies data on drug use by arrestees in selected cities.
9. At the present time in the Levy/Conduit case, we are dealing with a
_____________________________________ not a ___________________________________.
10. Generally speaking, laws reflect _________________________________________ values.
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justic3
Third Exam--Spring 2000 Form 2
1. The _______________________________________________________ is a form of prison industry under which contractors assume complete control over prisoners.
2. The philosophy behind the establishment of coeducational prisons was that
______________________________________________________________________________.
3. _______________________________________________________________________ is a writ that directs the person holding a prisoner to bring him or her before a judicial officer to determine the lawfulness of imprisonment.
4. _________________________________________________________________________ is a program of closer surveillance and more exhaustive services that serve to place a probationer under tighter control than he or she might experience under regular probation.
5. A _____________________________________________________________________ is the process by which the juvenile court relinquishes it jurisdiction over a child and transfers the case to a court of criminal jurisdiction for prosecution as an adult.
6. Name one of the three internationally recognized prisons in Alabama or
tell why one of the three is recognized. ______________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
7. Community corrections for adults is not successful because
___________________________________________________________________ .
8. In the Elian Gonzelles case INS and the Attorney general had to ________
____________________________________________________________________ to be able to successfully remove him from his uncle's home.
9. Treatment in prison can only prepare the offender to accept
_____________________________________________________________________________.
10. Alabama has ____________________________________________________________ in the area of juvenile justice.
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justic3
Third Exam--Spring 2000 form 1
1. The ____________________________________________________________ is a form of prison industry in which inmate production is directed by prison officials, goods are sold on the open market, and inmates receive a share of the profits.
2. Several years ago, lawyer-sociologist Paul Tappen commented that
homosexual behavior is a ______________________________________________________ of sex segregated living.
3. ___________________________________________________________________ is a situation in which inmates are confined to their cells around the clock, denied exercise, work, recreation, and visits.
4. _____________________________________________________________________ is a condition of probation requiring offenders to compensate their victims for damages or to donate their time in service to the community.
5. The organization of adult probation and parole in Alabama is unique
because _____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________.
7. Community corrections works better for ___________________________________
then for _____________________________________________________________________ .
8. When INS agents seized Elian Gonzelles the greatest risk was that
_______________________________________________________________________ .
9. Treatment can't work in Prison because you can't teach people to behave as they are supposed to behave in a prison environment that is
___________________________________________________________________________.
10. Alabama has ____________________________________________________________ in the area of Juvenile Justice.
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justic3
Second Exam--Spring 2000
1. ___________________________________________________________ is the freedom to choose among a variety of alternatives in conducting police operations.
2. ________________________________________________________________ is the doctrine introduced in Terry vs. Ohio that states that evidence seized illegally is considered "tainted" and cannot be used against the suspect.
3. Anthony V. Bouza, former chief of police of Minneapolis, stated that
__________________________________________________corrupt both cops and robbers.
4. The justice of the peace generally was not required to be an
______________________________________________________________ and was best known as the person who performed marriages.
5. A ______________________________________________ is an application made to the court or the judge requesting an order of ruling in favor of the applicant.
6. A ___________________________________________________________ is any third party who posts a bond for an accused.
7. An ______________________________________________________________ sentence is a sentence of incarceration having a fixed minimum and a fixed maximum.
8. In Alabama, the ________________________________________________________ hears appeals that do not exceed $50,000; appeals regarding domestic relations and worker compensation cases; appeals from administrative agencies, excluding the Alabama Public Service Commission; and cases transferred from the Alabama Supreme Court because of jurisdiction.
9. According to deviance theory the determination of an act is wrong is
____________________________________________________________________________.
10. Justice system employees use ____________________________________________ when using discretion even though they are not aware that they do.
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justic3
Make-up--First Exam--Spring 2000
1. _________________________________________________________ is the scientific study of the causes of crime, rates of crime, the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders, and the prevention of crime.
2. ______________________________________________________________ is conduct that the people of a group consider so dangerous, embarrassing, or irritating that they bring special sanctions to bear against the people who exhibit it.
3. ______________________________________________________________ is degenerate sexual behavior that is so well known that it may result in the corruption of public decency.
4. ____________________________________________________________, an annual report of the FBI, presents official statistics on the rates and trends in crime in the United States.
5. The most common method for bringing formal criminal charges is the
_______________________________________________________________________ .
6. _____________________________________________________________ consist of volunteer civilians working with local police. They are under the direct supervision of the police and are trained.
7. In 1998 the Birmingham Police Department hosted the _____________________
______________________________________________ in an effort to educate policy makers, the media, and the criminal justice community about the effects of gender in law enforcement practices.
8. The author refers the reader to __________________________________________ for more information and exercises about the various chapters.
9. Gossip and ________________________________________________________ are the two most common forms of informal social control.
10. The primary purpose of traffic tickets is to ____________________________
______________________________________________________________________________ .
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justic3
First Exam--Spring 2000
1. A legacy of the ______________________________________________________ has been a criminal justice process that appears to be drug driven in almost every respect.
2. _____________________________________________________________ is the concealment of a felony committed by another.
3. ______________________________________________________________________ is the key word in the entrapment defense.
4. __________________________________________________________ is the taking and carrying away of the personal property of another, with the intent to deprive permanently.
5. In the ______________________________________________________________ information on Part I offenses is grouped by city, metropolitan area, state, region, and the nation as a whole to reflect a profile or summary of crime for the given year.
6. __________________________________________________________ is the action of taking a person into custody for the purpose of charging with a crime.
7. __________________________________________________________ is extralegal criminal justice activities by individuals or groups who take the law into their own hands.
8. In 1998 the Birmingham Police Department hosted the _____________________
______________________________________________ in an effort to educate policy makers, the media, and the criminal justice community about the effects of gender in law enforcement practices.
9. Those who deviate from the social contract are controlled primarily by
_____________________________________________________________________________
10. If a sheriff's deputy gives you a traffic ticket than he or she is either
making money for the county or ________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________.
CJ100
Introduction to Criminal Justice
Summer 1999
1. The correctional responsibilities of the federal government are divided
between the ___________________________________________________________, which operates prisons through the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Administrative Office of the Courts which is responsible for probation and parole.
2. In its simplest form, ______________________________________________ is repayment by an offender to a victim who has suffered some form of financial loss from the crime.
3. The __________________________________________________________________ of correctional institutional management emphasizes maintaining the offender's ties to family and community as a method of reform, recognizing that the offender will be returning to society.
4. _________________________________________________________________, which trace their roots to the early workshops of New York's Auburn Penitentiary, are intended to teach work habits and skills that will assist prisoners' reentry into the outside workforce.
5. _______________________________________________________________is the release of an inmate from incarceration without any further correctional supervision; the prisoner cannot be returned to prison form any remaining portion of the sentence for the current offense.
6. A _______________________________________________________________ is any act committed by a juvenile that is considered unacceptable for a child, such a truancy or running away from home, but that would not be a crime if it were committed by an adult.
7. The first penitentiary was developed to __________________________________ the existing system of punishments.
8. The use of community corrections is limited because there
_________________________________________________ available to judges when they make their sentencing decisions.
9. Prison inmates can _________________________________________________ the prison any time they want.
10. About 75% of the inmates in prison are not _____________________________>
CJ 100
Introduction to Criminal Justice
Summer 2001
Instructor: Bob Sigler 348-7781 553-3897 rsigler@cj.as.ua.edu
Home page: bama.ua.edu/~rsigler/home
Office hours: after class
Text: Criminal Justice, James A. Inciardi, Harcourt Brace
July 10 Introduction and overview Chapters 1 and 2
11 Legal Philosophy Chapter 3
12 Extent of Crime Chapters 4 A2-A11
13 first exam
16 Overview of the system Chapter 5
17 History of Policing Chapter 6
18 Police work Chapter 7
19 Constitutional issues Chapter 8
20 second exam
23 Corruption Chapter 9
24 Court structures Chapter 10
25 Court positions Chapters 11 A17-A29
26 The court process Chapter 12
27 Third Exam
30 Sentencing Chapter 13
31 Corrections background Chapters 14 A30-A36
1 Inside the institution Chapter 15
2 Institutional conflict Chapter 16
3 Community Corrections Chapters 17 A37-A44
6 Juvenile Justice Chapters 18 A45-A50
7 Review
8 Review
9 fourth exam
Course Requirements
Exams 80%
Term Paper 20%
l00%
Term Paper
The term paper will be about 3,000 words (10-15 pages) in length. It will focus on any issue in criminal justice. Due April 5. No more than one half of the reference citations can come from non-refereed web sites.
Class Format
This class is a lecture/discussion class. Specific chapters are assigned for each day. Students will ask questions about the reading assignments at the beginning of each class period. When the questions have been discussed, enrichment material will be presented by the instructor and discussed.