The US Constitution
Introduction to the Justice System
The Extent of Crime in America
The Concept of Laws in America
The US Police System
The Police Process
100

 The branch of our government oversees the carrying out of the laws

What is the Executive Branch

100

This Model Means that the Safety of Society Should come First

What is the crime control model
100

"x number of offenses per 100,000 people"

What is the rate at which the US calculates crime?

100

A Law written by the Internal Revenue Service to regulate taxes would be an example of this.

What is an Administrative Law?

100

NOT a disqualifier for becoming a police office

What is a poor SAT or ACT score?

100

Preliminary investigations are usually conducted by this police officer

What is the Patrol Officer

200

The founding fathers put this tool in the government to protect against one branch becoming too powerful

What are Checks and Balances

200

Police, Courts, Corrections

What are the Components of the Criminal Justice System
200

 Crimes NOT measured by the NCVS

What are Murder, Robbery, Sexual Assault

200

Generally to have a crime, you must have these 3 things.

What are  Concurrence, actus reaus and mens rea

200

Peel's Idea of Police

What is to Prevent Crime?

200

Follow-up investigations are normally conducted by this group of police officers.

Detectives

300

It was created with the intention to limit the power of all branches of government regarding individual citizens rights (Hint: First 10 Amendments)

What is the Bill of Rights

300

A limit on prosecutions where the accused was previously prosecuted for the same offense by the same sovereign

What is Double Jeopardy

300

A crime where a person makes an unlawful entry into a building with the intent to commit a felony or a theft is called.

What is Burglary?
300

These crimes don't require intent.

What are Strict Liability Crimes?
300

  The use of non-negotiable coercive force.

What is the "Core essence of policing?"

300

This information has been analyzed and evaluated and provides the basis for action.

Intelligence

400

Vehicular Searches, Abandoned Property Searches, Plain View Searches

What are exceptions to normal search and seizure limitations

400

This prevents prosecution when too long has passed since the crime was committed

What is a Statute Of Limitations

400

The crime of taking or attempting to take property from the person of another by force or threat of force.

What is Robbery?

400

The proof necessary to show that a crime has been committed (Body of the Crime)

What is the Corpus Delecti?

400

Bittner said this about the presence of police in a democratic society

What is the saying that police are anomalies?

400

 This control mechanism on the police is located externally and involves a non-adversarial process.

Legislatures

500

A crime for which you may receive the death penalty

What is a Capital Crime

500

A component of the criminal justice system where people are sent after having been convicted of a felony and are serving a sentence of incarceration of over one year

What is a Prison

500

A law enforcement agency may mark a case as cleared when this happens.

What is an Arrest, OR Charges filed, OR by exceptional means

500

The most serious crimes punishable by death or prison for a year or more are

What are felonies?

500

federal law enforcement agencies is not part of the Executive Branch of government

What are the US Marshalls?

500

According to Wilson, this style of policing has the characteristic of having high frequency of intervention and high formality.

Legalistic

600

Grand jury hearing, double jeopardy, & self-incrimination

What are the rights of the 5th Amendment

600

Short-term holding facility

What is a jail?

600

Among the reasons crime has declined in America from 2016 to 2021, which is arguably the most compelling.

What is an effect of aging population?

600

You must have these things to have a justification defense. 

What are 

  Must admit the illegal act for the defense 

  Claim there is a legal justification 


600

The English tradition that was adopted as a mode of policing in the United States

What is a Sheriff?

600

This is one of the main police functions that is invoked by the police whenever a violation of the law occurs.

Law Enforcement

700

A person cannot be tried twice for the same crime once all appeals are final in the same sovereign system

What is Double Jeopardy

700

This model of the criminal justice system has been likened to an obstacle course

What is the Due Process Model?

700

Crimes that increased from 2016 to 2021, according to book.

What are violent crimes?

700

  You must escape (retreat) rather than use this if you can do so safely.

What is Self Defense?

700

Era of policing emerged due to the realization that police need the input and participation of the citizens in policing

What is the Community Era?

700

This main function of the police requires that they render assistance to citizens even if there is no violation of the law or disturbance of the peace.

Service

800

Statement in Court or to the Police about a crime a defendant is suspected of may not be forced from them.

What is the right against Self-Incrimination (5th Amendment)

800

Criminal Court, Civil Courts, Other Specialized Courts

What are different categories of court in the US?
800

Some of the primary sources of Crime Data in the United States.

What are the UCR, NIBRS, NCVS

800

These are some legal defenses to a committing a crime.

  What are Duress, Insanity, Voluntary intoxication 

800

A form of policing that emerged as the tradition from the Old West.

What is vigilante policing?

800

This style of policing derived from Wilson’s criteria has low frequency of intervention and low formality.

Service


900

The basis of the Miranda decision comes from

What is the 5th Amendment

900

This Model says that individual rights should prevail against society

What is the Due Process Model

900

Represents those crimes that are not reported to the police

What is the Dark Figure of Crime

900

Examples of Legal Insanity Defenses

What are M’Naghten Rule, Durhan Rule, Irresistible impulse

900

This event precipitated the emergence of the Homeland Security Era of policing

What are the 911 attacks?

900

This element of community-oriented policing means that police officers should have permanency of beats.

Geographic Focus

1000

The Right to Counsel

What is the 6th Amendment

1000

Model compared to an assembly line

Crime Control Model
1000

NCVS started collecting data in this year.

What is 1985

1000

The inducement of a person by a government agent to commit a crime they were not predisposed to commit.

What is Entrapment? 

1000

Federal Police agency that is not part of the Department of Homeland Security

What is the FBI?

1000

This form of patrol refers to situations where the police wait for calls or incidents and then respond to the incident or call.

Reactive Patrol

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