Since 1976, this method of execution has been used the most by states carrying out the death penalty.
What is lethal injection?
100
The restriction of the freedom of a person by taking him or her into police custody.
What is an arrest?
100
Their main job is to decide if the evidence and witnesses prove the guilt of the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt.
What is a jury?
100
This country has the largest prison population in the world.
What is USA! USA! USA!
100
These sanctions are alternatives to incarceration, such as probation, parole, house arrest, community service, electronic monitoring, etc.
What is community corrections?
200
Taking, or attempting to take, anything of value from a person by force, threat, or fear.
What is robbery?
200
The federal law enforcement agency responsible for protecting the United States from terrorist attacks, foreign intelligence and espionage, cyber-based attacks, and high-tech crimes and for combating public corruption at all levels.
What is the FBI?
200
A higher court which hears the appeals against the lower courts' judgments.
What is an appellate court?
200
The practice of confining an inmate such that there is no contact with other people.
What is solitary confinement?
200
Other than staying crime free, this is the biggest problem facing newly released offenders.
What is finding employment?
300
The expected normative behavior in a society.
What are social norms?
300
These rights, read upon arrest, include the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.
What are the Miranda rights?
300
The result of a pretrial negotiation between defendant and prosecutor for a plea of guilty for which in return the defendant receives some benefit, such as a reduction of charges.
What is a plea bargain/plea deal?
300
These short-term facilities house a variety of offenders from the immediate community - most of whom are awaiting trial.
What are jails?
300
It refers to a person's relapse into criminal behavior, often after the person receives sanctions or undergoes intervention for a previous crime.
What is recidivism?
400
The principle that the only way to prevent a criminal from reoffending is to remove them from society.
What is incapacitation?
400
A police officer who stops a motorist primarily because of the color of their skin is engaging in this.
What is racial profiling?
400
Conduct that is a crime only because it is committed by a juvenile. Examples include: truancy, running away from home, breaking curfew, underage drinking/smoking tobacco, incorrigibility.
What is a status offense?
400
The term for comparatively and historically extreme rates of imprisonment and by the concentration of imprisonment among young, African American men living in neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage.
What is mass incarceration?
400
The conditional release of a convicted offender in order to avoid incarceration.
What is probation?
500
The dark figure of crime refers to this.
What are unreported crimes?
500
This amendment requires that evidence must be obtained by police with the use of a valid search warrant issued by a judge or searches may be based on probable cause.
What is the 4th Amendment?
500
Ensuring that citizens are protected from abusive power by the government, particularly in the courts, is known as this.
What is due process?
500
The process by which prisoners are assigned to different types of custody and treatment.
What is classification?
500
These people supervise offenders who have been released from prison early.