CASE 9.2 The criminal courts confront a double bind with regard to victims. On the one hand, victims are valued for the cases they bring to the system; their misfortunes become the raw material of the court process. On the other hand, individual victims represent a potential source of irrationality in the process. The personal and often emotional involvement of victims in the crime experience can generate particular demands for case outcomes that have little to do with the public interest. Members of the courtroom work group know that the same individual may, at different times, be:

Which of the following forms of criminal arrest has the highest rate?

In regard to ineffective assistance of counsel, appellate courts must reverse only if the proceedings were fundamentally unfair and the outcome would have been __________ if counsel has not been ineffective.

Prosecution in the United States is highly centralized.

Which of the following are index crimes?

The office of the solicitor general is in essence a small, elite, very influential law firm whose client is the U.S. government.

Judges who fail to move their docket may be transferred to less desirable duties.

Bail bondsmen have their offices outside of courtrooms.

__________ percent of defendants are described by their attorneys as recalcitrant.

In this situation, the suspect’s mental condition is taken into consideration.