Truth-in-sentencing means that
a. convicted criminals must serve a certain percentage of their sentence before being eligible for parole.
b. if someone is sentenced to six years they will serve six years.
c. if a criminal is sentenced, he or she will automatically get out after a certain percentage of the sentence has been served.
d. convicted felons who admit details of a crime to the judge will get a lesser sentence.
Question -2-Which of the following is NOT a budget reality?
a. It is easy to start a new program and almost impossible to end it.
b. It is easy to vote for programs that benefit people now and are paid for later.
c. Almost every budget action tends to benefit one sector and hurt another.
d. Every spending line in a budget has vocal opponents; advocates are rare.
Question -3-The capacity to induce someone to do something he or she would not have done otherwise is known as
a. persuasion.
b. influence.
c. power.
d. pressure.
Question -4-Which convicted criminal is LEAST likely to be released from prison before most of the sentence is served?
a. One convicted of a non-violent crime.
b. One who has a record in prison of good behavior.
c. One from a state with tough truth-in-sentencing guidelines.
d. One from a state suffering budget cuts.
Question -5-Why does the pre-trial discovery process take so long?
a. Because the defense is allowed almost unlimited time to discover the whereabouts of witnesses it needs.
b. Because judges will wait for both sides to discover the best jurors for the trial.
c. Because the prosecution waits until the police discover the best evidence possible for finding the defendant guilty.
d. Because each side is entitled to all facts and documents that the other side holds, and because obtaining all of the information is time-consuming.
Question -6-Which of the following was NOT one of the specific themes discussed in the textbook?
a. Power and influence in state and local governments.
b. Implementation challenges in local governments.
c. The tension between representative and participatory democracy.
d. The ways in which the structures of government and the political processes interact.
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