The branch of law dealing with the definition and enforcement of all private or public rights, as opposed to criminal matters.
What is Civil Law?
100
A criminal justice model in which the majority of citizens in a society share the same values and beliefs. Criminal acts are acts that conflict with these values and beliefs and that are deemed harmful to society
What is Consensus Model?
100
Studies victims and why they become victims
What is victimology?
200
You don't have the ability to distinguish from right from wrong.
What is the insanity defense?
200
The guilty mind
What is Mens rea?
200
The person or institution that initiates a lawsuit in civil court proceedings by filing a complaint.
Who is the Plaintiff?
200
A criminal justice model that places primary emphasis on the right of society to be protected from crime and violent criminals.
What is the crime control model?
200
Offenses that are illegal because laws define them as such.
What is mala prohibita?
300
When a government agent entices you to commit a crime?
Entrapment
300
The idea that the guilty mind and the guilty act must happen at the same time?
What is concurrence?
300
In a civil court, the person or institution against whom an action is brought .
Who is the Defendant?
300
Offenses that are illegal because laws define them as such
What is mala prohibita?
300
The first 10 amendments to the constitution. It is where we get important protections from the government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
I am 6 years old and can't form the required intent.
What is the infancy defense?
400
The injury or loss that happens because of an illegal act
What is Harm?
400
The degree of proof required to find the defendant guilty in a criminal trial.
What is Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
400
The use of illegal use force to take property. You can't do this to a house.
What is Robbery?
400
An explanation of a happening or circumstance that is based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning
What is a theory?
500
The criminal defense type where I am responsible for my action but I believe I acted correctly.
What is a justification defense?
500
Knowingly, purposefully, recklessly, and haphazardly. One of these is not a state of mind in criminal law.
What is Haphazardly?
500
A descriptive term for acts that are inherently wrong, regardless of whether they are prohibited by law.
What is Mala in se?
500
A criminal justice model that places primacy on the rights of the individual to be protected from the power of the government.
What is the due process model?
500
A measure of the incidence of crime expressed as the number of crimes per unit of population or some other base.