Crime in the U.S.
In some jurisdictions, a person my have a trial without a jury. This is called what?
Bench Trial
This is the lawful seizure of a person by a lawful authority either by willful submission to authority or physical custody.
Arrest
These types of rules are most often open to interpretation or change based on groups, time and society.
Social mores or norms
This represents the amount of crime that occurs but is not detected or reported to law enforcement.
Dark Figure of Crime
What is the difference between possession of marijuana for a minor under the age of 18 and an adult over the age of 18.
Status offense.
A person against whom a legal action is brought against or a warrant is issued.
Defendant
A person may be eligible for a conditional release from prison before they have served their full sentence which is supervised by the state.
Parole
This type of law declares that an act is not criminal if a law did not exist to prevent or prohibit the conduct?
Ex Post Facto Law
This survey requests voluntary information regarding crime victimization from people over the age of 12 during the previous six months of the survey.
National Crime Victimization Survey
Law, Victim, and Punishment are used to create what?
Crime Triangle
Organizations that that persuade people through subtle and not so subtle means to abide by the dominant values of society.
Institution of social control.
Following arrest and booking, a defendant is required to attend this pretrial court hearing to be told the charges against them prior to arraignment and advised over their constitutional rights. What is this called?
This legal defense for committing a crime states that a person must be forced or coerced (made to) commit a crime against their will.
Duress
These statistics are reported by these organizations and provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigations which is published regarding the previous years reported crimes under the Uniform Crime Report
law enforcement
These components form the criminal justice system which are interdependent on each other.
Law Enforcement, Courts and Corrections
A less serious crime punishable by fine, or incarceration in a jail for a year or less.
Misdemeanor
This type of punishment allows a convicted offender to remain in the community while being supervised by a county agency rather than incarceration.
Probation
This element of a crime states that the Actus Reus and Mens Rea must occur together
Concurrence
These crimes are listed in the Violent Crimes in the Uniform Crime Report.
Murder and Non-negligent manslaughter
Rape
Robbery
Aggravated Assault
This crime element that constitutes the physical act of the criminal behavior.
Actus Reus
95% of these cases are settled in court using this practice where the prosecutor, defense attorney and defendant agree on a specific sentence and the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a specified charge.
Plea bargain
A law enforcement agent may search your vehicle without a warrant or arrest you for a suspected crime if they can establish this.
Probable cause
This legal excuse can be used if a crime was committed in order to prevent a more serious crime from occurring.
Necessity defense
These are listed as Part I offenses in this Uniform Crime Report.
Eight Index Crimes
This is the external consequence required to make an action a crime. It could be physical or financial however, emotional or mental is not enough.
Harm