Judicial Administration
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Course Introduction
Judicial Administration explores the structures, functions, and processes associated with the management and operation of courts and the judiciary. The course examines topics such as court organization, judicial roles, case flow management, judicial ethics, jury management, technology in the courtroom, budgeting, and policy reform. By analyzing how courts maintain efficiency, fairness, and independence, students gain insight into practical challenges faced by judicial administrators and the impact of administrative decisions on the broader justice system. The course also addresses contemporary issues such as judicial reform initiatives, access to justice, and the interplay between judicial administration and other branches of government.
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Justice Administration Police Courts and Corrections Management 8th Edition by Ken J. Peak
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Chapter 1: The Study and Scope of Justice Administration
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Q1) The most complex and comprehensive approach to effecting planned change in criminal justice is to create a policy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) System fragmentation is largely believed to have no effect on the amount and type of crime that exists.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The non-systems approach is part of the consensus model point of view,which assumes that all parts of the system work toward a common goal.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) A theorist connected with the social contract theory,who argued that all people were essentially irrational and selfish,was ___________ __________ .
Answer: Thomas Hobbes
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Chapter 2: Organization and Administration Principles and Practices
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Q1) An organization's desired outcome,goods,or services.
A) Planning
B) Reorganization
C) Inputs
D) Outputs
Answer: D
Q2) A hands-off approach to leadership,in which the organization essentially runs itself,is known as a(n)____________ leader.
Answer: laissez-faire
Q3) To convey an experience or idea,we translate,or ___________,that experience into symbols.We use words or other verbal behaviors or nonverbal behaviors such as gestures to convey the experience or idea.
Answer: encode
Q4) Upward communication in a criminal justice organization is the easiest form of communication as there are fewer barriers than downward communication.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Rights of Criminal Justice Employees
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Q1) Disparate treatment in pay and benefits can be litigated under:
A) Title VII.
B) the Equal Pay Act.
C) the equal protection clause.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
Answer: D
Q2) This major piece of legislation is the instrument by which an employee may sue an employer for civil rights violations based on the deprivation of constitutional rights.
A) Title 47, U.S. Code Section 1331
B) Title 18, U.S. Code Section 1221
C) Title 42, U.S. Code Section 1983
D) Title 32, U.S. Code Section 1982
E) None of the above
Answer: C
Q3) The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)entitles eligible employees to take up to___ weeks of unpaid,job-protected leave in a____-month period for specified family and medical reasons.
Answer: 12; 12
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Chapter 4: Police Organization and Operation
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Q1) If the police were totally successful in their patrol and crime prevention efforts,according to the textbook the ____________ division would be unnecessary.
A) administrative
B) record
C) traffic
D) investigative
E) None of the above
Q2) The police role is much too ambiguous to become totally standardized,but it is also much too serious and important to be left completely to the discretion of the patrol officer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Intelligence-led policing operates under the assumption that a relatively _________ number of people are responsible for a comparatively ________ percentage of crimes.
A) large; small
B) large; large
C) small; large
D) small; small
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Chapter 5: Police Personnel Roles and Functions
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Q1) A very difficult rank to hold,caught between upper management and rank-and-file officers,is that of:
A) sergeant.
B) corporal.
C) captain.
D) lieutenant.
Q2) According to Mintzberg,there are three roles of the CEO: the intrapersonal,the informational,and the decision-maker roles.
A)True
B)False
Q3) There are three types of political arenas: confrontation,shaky alliance,and a politicized organization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are some similarities and differences between the FTO and PTO concepts?
Q5) The police executive's function of engaging in labor negotiations would be part of the interpersonal function.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Police Issues and Practices
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Q1) Use-of-force continuums have not evolved and are therefore discredited and not useful.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _________ __________,where a (usually smaller)community contracts with an outside unit of government to provide its policing services,can be said to operate under ________ ______theory,which states that policing works best in small units that are more responsive than large organizations to residents' needs.
Q3) Knowledge such as Super Bowl Sunday being the slowest crime day of the year is an example of using predictive policing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Since 9/11 very few larger police departments have undergone internal restructuring as a way of dealing with terrorism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Police work can be easily balanced with family life.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Court Organization and Operation
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Q1) The United States Supreme Court has made dramatic decisions in all but which of the following areas?
A) Race relations
B) Overhauling juvenile courts
C) Legalizing abortion
D) Elections of judges
Q2) The work of U.S.district judges is significantly assisted by bankruptcy judges,who are appointed for 14-year terms.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To alleviate the caseload burden on courts of last resort,state officials in 39 states have responded by creating:
A) a supreme court liaison office.
B) an administrative office.
C) Intermediate courts of appeals.
D) a death penalty resolution project.
E) None of the above
Q4) The state supreme courts are also the ultimate review board for matters involving interpretation of _____________law.
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Chapter 8: Court Personnel Roles and Functions
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Q1) A full-time institution in the United States that provides judicial training for state judges is the _______________,located in ______________.
A) Court of Training / Las Vegas
B) Training Courts Institute / New York
C) National Judicial College / Reno
D) Judicial Institute / Chicago
Q2) Judges should allow the law to become their entire life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A federal judge maintained that it takes about ________years to "get a full feel of a docket."
Q4) The American Judicature Society argues for limiting the role of politics in the selection of state judges.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why is civility so important for the appearance of justice and propriety in our courts?
Q6) ___________ __________ has been favored by court reformers wanting to remove the courts from politics.
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Chapter 9: Court Issues and Practices
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Q1) ADR proceedings are normally confidential,with only the final agreement being made public.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who made the highly publicized finding that,in prison programs,"almost nothing works"?
A) Palmer
B) Martinson
C) Louis
D) Sparger
Q3) ____________ _________ are those actions filed by parties or attorneys who are aware they are without merit,due to a lack of legal basis or argument for the alleged claim.
Q4) Good media relations can also be very important for the courts,especially in ____________________cases.
Q5) The "just deserts" theory is based on the idea that:
A) inmates should be rewarded for behavior.
B) wardens deserve extra perks for hard work.
C) every prison meal should include ice cream.
D) offenders make "free will" decisions to commit crimes.
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Chapter 11: Corrections Personnel Roles and Functions
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Q1) One of the major responsibilities of prison administrators is to carry out the death penalty.All of the following are activities associated with these duties,except:
A) overseeing the execution team that is with the prisoner at all times.
B) reading the court order or death warrant.
C) preparing the final paperwork.
D) None of the above
E) All of the above
Q2) Jails represent the ___________ _______ ___________into the criminal justice system.
Q3) The hard-liner correctional officer has all but which of the following characteristics?
A) Being hard
B) Being aggressive
C) Being power-hungry
D) Being flexible
Q4) To minimize the possibility of error,executions are carried out by highly trained
Q5) ______________ is still the number one problem of jails.
Q6) What are the primary roles of jail administrators?
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Chapter 12: Corrections Issues and Practices
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Q1) Corrections staff must make decisions about at least two issues regarding inmates:
A) Whether or not to enforce the three-strikes laws under which inmates are sentenced.
B) The inmate's spiritual and financial needs
C) The inmate's level of physical restraint or "security level," and the inmate's level of supervision or custody grade.
D) None of the above
Q2) In their examination of prison victimizations,Wolff and Shi found that __ of inmates reported they had been physically assaulted,and _____reported having been sexually assaulted.
A) 58% / 76%
B) 32% / 3%
C) 12% / 56%
D) 87% / 25%
Q3) Riots and __________ __________ are probably as old as corrections itself,and are the jail and prison administrator's worst nightmare.
Q4) In prison,mentally ill individuals pose a _________dilemma for administrators.
Q5) What are the major arguments for and against inmates being issued condoms?
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Chapter 13: Ethical Considerations
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Q1) Edward Tully blames for the lapse in police ethics.
A) money
B) lack of training
C) agency leaders
D) society
Q2) Because of the expectation of loyalty to their supervisors,in extreme cases practitioners may find themselves:
A) lying under oath.
B) supporting cover-ups.
C) justifying untruths.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
Q3) Since 1975,about ______ articles have been published about judges and judicial ethics.
A) 900
B) 100
C) 500
D) 300
Q4) _____________ are complimentary gifts of money,services,or something of other value given by one party to another.
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Chapter 14: Special Challenges Labor Relations, liability, and Discipline
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Q1) Title 42,United States Code Section 1983,was initially enacted as the:
A) Civil Rights Act, 1864.
B) Vigilante Act, 1877.
C) Ku Klux Klan Act, 1871.
D) Vicarious Liability Act, 1912.
Q2) A positive discipline program attempts to change employee behavior without punishment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Generally,efforts by management and the union to resolve conflicts should wait until the media becomes informed on the issues and publicizes the information.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Failure to protect as a form of negligence may occur if:
A) a city fails to put traffic control devices in high-accident areas.
B) a police officer fails to protect a person from a known and foreseeable danger.
C) a state fails to inform citizens of crime rates on its college campuses.
D) a SWAT unit is not called to a violent crime scene.
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Chapter 15: Financial Administration
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Q1) The word audit means to verify something independently.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ___________ __________,or a severe,prolonged economic downturn,is said to have officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009.
Q3) Audits determine whether or not funds were spent legally.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss what is involved in each of the four steps of a budgeting cycle.
Q5) Financial audits determine whether:
A) funds were spent legally.
B) the budgeted amount was exceeded.
C) the financial process proceeded in a legal manner.
D) All of the above
Q6) Financial administration is removed from politics,particularly after a budget request is approved.
A)True
B)False
Q7) By 2010,______states had made reductions to their corrections budgets.
Q8) Discuss the definition of a budget and its uses.
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Chapter 16: Technologies and Tools: in an Era of Big Data and the Cloud
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Q1) It is predicted that _______flying robots will be in the skies by 2020,and that number will __________by 2030.
A) 10,000; double
B) 15,000; double
C) 20,000; triple
D) 30,000; double
E) None of the above
Q2) Explain how a cloud storage computing system works,including the advantages and special concerns of its use.
Q3) The use of BYOD policies is thought to be beneficial because of the following except:
A) it avoids the need to train employees in their use, enabling.
B) employees to use the devices that they are already comfortable in using.
C) it can result in officers spending more time in the office.
D) it allows greater access to resources and communication when in the field.
E) All are beneficial.
Q4) Anyone who has an e-mail account with a web-based e-mail service (e.g.,Hotmail,Yahoo!,or Gmail)has been involved with___________ __________.
Q5) What does the field of robotics promise for the police?
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