Criminal
What are the punishments for committing a misdemeanor offense in NJ?
Fine, Up to 1 year in jail, community service, probation
Highest Court in the land
Supreme Court of the United States
Offenses committed by persons acting in their legitimate occupational roles
White Collar Crime
What increased as a result of poverty and drug abuse in the 1960's
Property Crimes
When officials are elected by the people and make up the laws that govern those citizens of the country or state it is called
Democracy
Criminal groups that use violent behavior
Terrorism
Misdemeanor crimes, playing music too loud, drunk in public, urinating in public are all
Public Order Crimes
Administrative steps and procedures carried out by the police to record an arrest
Discrection
Name the 3 basic parts of our criminal justice system
Law enforcement, courts, corrections
Which type of law sets the nature and limits of what government can and cannot do
Constitutional Law
First 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
Refers to the series of orderly steps or actions that are used to determine if a person in guilty or not guilty
Criminal Procedure
The amount of people on a regular jury
12
Due to the War on Drugs thousands of people were arrested which resulted in this problem in many jails
Overcrowding
This model of Criminal Justice depicts cases processed by the criminal justice system in four layers
Wedding Cake Model
Action of taking a person into custody for the purpose of charging him/her with a crime
Arrest
Serious Crimes punishable by death or imprisonment or serious crime punishable by electrocution or lethal injection are examples of
Definition of felony
1960's what Commission was created to study the crime problem in the US as well as the structure of the criminal justice system
President's Crime Commission
As a result of the 9/11/2001 attacks, which Federal law enforcement agency was created
Homeland Security
This model was believed to slow down the criminal justice system and not allow the police to do their job
Due Process Model/Chief Justice Earl Warren
Term used to describe when a criminal justice professional makes a decision based on options
Discretion
The first law that targeted dangerous drugs
Pure Food an Drug Act
During the 1960's there were two competing models of the criminal justice system
Crime Control Model and Due Process Model
This allows the criminal justice system to function more efficiently by moving cases along and preventing long backlogs in the courts
Discretion practiced by judges, attorneys, and the police
This model of Criminal Justice depicts diminishing number of cases processed by the Criminal Justice System as cases removed from system
Funnel Cake Model