Punishment inflicted on a person who deserves to be penalized or punished.
What is retribution?
100
The legally protected stake or interest a person has regarding the admissibility of evidence.
What is standing?
100
The "Father of American Policing."
Who is August Vollmer?
100
An offense which is punishable by one year or more in a state prison.
What is a felony?
100
The intent to commit the criminal act.
What is mens rea?
200
What an inmate will receive after serving time equal to the total sentence minus “good time,” if any.
What is mandatory release?
200
Protects individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
200
Most likely to be responsible for crime scene contamination.
What is detectives?
200
A defense in which the defendant accepts responsibility for the act but claims what they did was right.
What is justification?
200
The theory which holds that crime is a function of one’s inability to achieve personal goals (such as earning money, owning a home, having a nice car) because society is stratified by socioeconomic class.
What is strain theory?
300
A way that states have gotten around the rigidity of mandatory release
What is conditional release?
300
An area where only the primary investigators and CSIs are allowed to gather.
What is inner perimeter?
300
a sophisticated computer program that assists investigators in managing complex investigations.
What is HOLMES?
300
In a death penalty case, a finding by the jury that the defendant did not have a significant criminal background.
What is a mitigating factor?
300
Acts that are considered illegal because they threaten the general well-being of society and challenge its accepted moral principles.
What are public order crimes?
400
The policy that those with a felony conviction are not allowed to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?
400
The person who should be interviewed first at the crime scene.
What is complainant?
400
The agency responsible for maintaining records concerning firearms dealers.
What is ATF?
400
An unjustified, offensive touching of another person.
What is battery?
400
A crime-reducing social event.
What is marriage?
500
A system where prisoners are used for labor by private interests.
What is the convict lease system?
500
When blood is no longer circulating through a body and gravity pulls the blood to the body’s lowest levels.
What is postmortem lividity?
500
Evidence, which standing alone, is sufficient to establish a given fact.
What is prima facie evidence?
500
An agreement to commit a crime.
What is a conspiracy?
500
A goal of punishment which is aimed at reducing future criminality by treating and eliminating the underlying causes of crime.