Alpha Phi Sigma
When is our APS induction ceremony?
What is April 25th?
The enforcement, by the police, the courts, and correctional institutions, of obedience to laws
What is the criminal justice system?
Which well-known serial killer kept a human head in their fridge?
What is Jeffery Dahmer?
The party bringing a lawsuit or initiating a legal action against someone else.
What is a Plaintiff?
This occupation works to enforce laws on a local, state, or federal level while protecting the lives of citizens.
What is the Police?
When was Alpha Phi Sigma created (not at SHSU but in general)?
What is 1942?
Aim for peacemaking, not punishment
What is Restorative justice perspective?
Which well-known serial killer is best known for dressing up as a clown?
What is John Wayne Gacy?
A serious offense with a possible sentence of more that a year in prison.
What is a Felony?
This occupation is a special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who provide investigators with a psychological or physical description of a suspect through intensive analyzation.
What is a criminal profiler?
What is the GPA required for master's students to be eligible to join Alpha Phi Sigma?
What is a 3.4 GPA?
Published annually by the FBI, each crime report describes the nature of crime as reported by law enforcement agencies; includes analyses of Part I crimes.
What is Uniform Crime Report (UCR)?
Which well-known serial killer used a 3 story hotel to trap, torture, and kill their victims?
What is H.H. Holmes?
Intentional murder with malice, but impulsive and not planned.
What is 2nd degree murder?
______________ is a massive, sprawling federal agency that was formed in the wake of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001
What is a Homeland Security Agent?
What is the difference between Alpha Phi Sigma and the rest of the CJ organizations at SHSU?
What is APS is the only accredited CJ organization at SHSU?
The theory that attributes increases in crime and deviance to the absence or breakdown of communal relationships and social institutions, such as the family, school, church, and local government.
What is social disorganization theory?
Who is one of the most well-known serial killers that has never been caught?
What is Jack the Ripper?
A rule of conduct, generally found enacted in the form of a statute, that proscribes or mandates certain forms of behavior.
What is law?
____________ apply their knowledge of psychology to understand crimes and evaluate criminals. They work with law enforcement to create criminal profiles, evaluate the competency of suspects to stand trial, and conduct psychological research.
What is a Forensic psychologist?
What are the names of our two APS advisors?
What is Dr.Roth and Dr.Dmello?
This prison design that has a central guard tower with small windows in the center with prison cells arranged in a circle around it. The guards could see into all the cells, but the prisoners could not see into the tower.
What is the Panopticon prison design?
Which serial killer is considered the worst modern day serial killer with possibly 300+ victims?
What is Pedro Alonso Lopez?
The body of rules and regulations that define and specify the nature of and punishments for offenses of a public nature or for wrongs committed against the state or society. Also called penal law.
What is criminal law?
_________ help solve crimes by using toxicology, DNA and trace evidence, blood and hair samples, weapons involved in the crime, fingerprints and other evidence collected at the crime scene.
What is a Crime Laboratory Analyst?