Deck 6: Prosecutors and Crime Control

Question 1

Which program was designed to promote local and federal coordination to find creative ways to reduce gun violence?

A) Gun Reduction Safety
B) Project Cease Fire
C) Project Safe Neighborhoods
D) Gun Resistance Project

Answer 1

Project Safe Neighborhoods

Question 2

________ marks a departure from the traditional role a prosecutor has played.

A) Covert prosecution
B) Strategic prosecution
C) Creative prosecution
D) Decreased prosecution

Answer 2

Strategic prosecution

Question 3

Which of the following crimes prompted Richmond's Project Exile?

A) sexual assaults
B) numerous traffic violations
C) a series of aggravated assaults
D) gun-related homicides

Answer 3

gun-related homicides

Question 4

Which of the following is not part of Project Safe Neighborhoods?

A) partnerships with other law enforcement agencies
B) strategic plan with an enforcement policy
C) an accountability involving output
D) prohibiting public announcements

Question 5

Plea bargaining benefits the prosecutor because it provides an option to

A) schedule a continuance for personal time off.
B) dispose of a heavy case load.
C) speak privately with the judge.
D) meet with the victim and their family.

Question 6

Plea bargaining might undermine the criminal process by deciding that a defendant is guilty without

A) a bond reduction hearing.
B) conducting a presentence investigation.
C) a trial.
D) an indictment.

Question 7

San Diego's prosecutors once sought restraining orders against ________ in order to drive them away from businesses.

A) prostitutes
B) rapists
C) shoplifters
D) murders

Question 8

The delay of filing criminal prosecution against a suspect until he or she completes a treatment program is known as

A) aggressive prosecution.
B) persistence prosecution.
C) overt prosecution.
D) deferred prosecution.

Question 9

Historically, ________ occupied a secondary position in the criminal justice process.

A) offenders
B) victims
C) perpetrators
D) judges

Question 10

Which of the following programs did President George W. Bush fund?

A) Project Safe Neighborhoods
B) Operation Identification
C) Law Enforcement Educational Program
D) Project Safe Streets

Question 11

________ allows a state or local prosecutor to act as an uncompensated special assistant to a United States attorney.

A) Multijuridiction partnerships
B) Special elections
C) Prosecutorial task force
D) Cross-designation

Question 12

Approximately ________ of guilty pleas are the result of plea bargaining.

A) 5 percent
B) 10 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 90 percent

Question 13

Behavioral incidents that adversely affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, resulting in the development of new laws to address such behavior are known as

A) nuisance abatement.
B) neighborhood watch.
C) cross-designation.
D) community prosecution.

Question 14

District attorneys are the ________ chief prosecutor for a local government unit.

A) selected
B) elected
C) appointed
D) Volunteer

Question 15

Project Safe Neighborhoods is a strategy designed to promote local and federal government coordination to combat gun violence.

Question 16

Community prosecution seeks to improve communications between prosecutors and community members such as business leaders.

Question 17

If offenders in the Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison (DTAP) failed the program, they were not allowed to start over.

Question 18

Ad Hoc plea bargaining involves an unauthorized form of punishment by the court.

Question 19

Deferred prosecution involves the delayed filing of criminal charges against a suspect while that individual is completing a treatment program.

Question 20

Community prosecution is a long standing program that has been heavily researched.

Question 21

Neighborhood Fresh Start in Atlanta used civil forfeiture to target houses involved in illegal drug sales.

Question 22

Plea bargaining has no effect on case attrition within the court system.

Question 23

Plea bargaining can not be refused by a prosecuting attorney.

Question 24

Cross-Designation prosecution cannot utilize local prosecutors in federal courts.

Question 25

________ can allow a defendant to plea guilty to an unauthorized or nonexistent charge.

Question 26

________ involves the delayed filing of criminal charges against a suspect while that individual is in a diversion program.

Question 27

The ________ program in Washington coordinated prosecution of gun violence and increased supervision and tracking of repeat offenders.

Question 28

Approximately 90% of criminal convictions in the United States result from ________.

Question 29

When criminal conduct takes place in a neighborhood in certain homes, the prosecutor might shut down these properties by invoking ________.

Question 30

________ historically have occupied a less emphasized role, than the offender in the criminal justice process.

Question 31

Consistent with the broken window theory, prosecutors can improve the quality of life in a neighborhood through ________.

Question 32

Project Safe Neighborhoods promotes interagency collaboration between local and federal government to combat ________.

Question 33

________ are the chief legal advisor to city government officials, such as a chief of police.

Question 34

________ is intended to shift a prosecutor's attention from individual cases to an overall strategy to reduce crime.

Question 35

Explain what is meant by the term the harder side of prosecution and cite examples of its use.

Question 36

Describe how a civil asset forfeiture law is used to address a crime problem.

Question 37

Provide a supporting argument for the use of plea bargaining.