CH 1
1. Identify the most important actors in the courthouse.
2. List the steps in a typical felony prosecution.
3. Explain the importance of the adversary system.
4. Identify some of the most important legal defenses in American law.
5. Distinguish between the crime control model of criminal justice and the due process model of criminal justice.
CH 2
6. Define the four primary types of jurisdiction: geographical, subject matter, personal, and hierarchical.
7. Compare and contrast the tasks of trial and appellate courts.
8. Explain the historical evolution of the federal courts into their present structure and operations.
9. Evaluate the major problems facing the federal courts and the strengths and weaknesses of the major solutions that have been proposed to address these problems.
CH 3
10. Outline the four layers of a typical state court system.
11. Identify how problem-solving courts using therapeutic jurisprudence handle cases.
CH 4
12. Describe the child-saving movement and its relationship to the doctrine of parens patriae.
13. List the five ways that juvenile courts differ from adult courts.
14. Identify and briefly describe the single most important Supreme Court case with respect to juvenile justice.
15. Compare and contrast how adherents of the crime control model and proponents of the due process model of criminal justice see the future of juvenile courts.
