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The main courtroom work group includes: the judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, court reporter, clerk, and the ____________.        

The terms forensic science and criminalistics are often used interchangeably, but they have quite different meanings.   

Today, U.S. society adheres to the rehabilitation model (referring to criminal justice, not corrections), which considers criminals to have been failed by society and emphasizes offender treatment.     

For many good reasons, there is a strong likelihood that, within the next 10 years, all municipal and county police agencies will be absorbed and consolidated into a single, national, centralized force.       

State law enforcement agencies typically perform only one function: patrolling state highways.     

____________ is the tendency among police officers to stick together and associate with one another.

Like their counterparts in the state court system, the ________________ are often described as “workhorses” of the federal judiciary.       

Currently the only legal means of being compensated when police violate someone’s rights is to take the matter to a criminal trial.   

Supermax prisons are so named because they offer the maximum amount of freedom and programming permitted by the courts.     

The five principles of an effective bureaucratic organization do NOT include: