Exam #4 Flashcards
Status offenses
offenses that apply only to juveniles, such as smoking and disobeying parents
Adolescent-limited
offenders are developmentally typical and have a prosocial background temporarily derailed in adolescence
Life course persistent
commit serious crimes and have neuropsychological, temperamental, genetic, and environmental deficits
Parens Patriae
father of his country
Waiver
juvenile offender is transferred to an adult court for a particularly serious charge or habitual delinquency
Adjudication
A formal judgement on a disputed matter
restorative justice
seeks to repair harm caused to victims through a non-adversarial process
Hands-off doctrine
court-articulated belief that the judiciary should not interfere with the management and admin of prisons
Habeas Corpus
court order requiring that an arrested person be brought before it to determine the legality of detention
4th amendment
guarantees the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, inmates have no 4th amendment protection
8th amendment
forbids cruel and unusual punishment
14th amendment
contains the due process clause, which declares that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
Deliberate indifference
occurring when prison officials know of, but disregard, an obvious risk to an inmate’s health or safety
Chivalry hypothesis
most obvious extralegal factor that leads to reluctance to impose death penalty on women
Evil women hypothesis
avers females who defy traditional gender roles, often by being unattractive and unladylike
