In this era domestication of animals and plants lead to a population explosion that necessitated the creation of a formal system of government and criminal justice.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
100
These three components make up the "Three C's of Criminal Justice."
What are cops, courts, and corrections?
100
This concept provides legal protection for defendants so they can not be tried a second time for an offense after they are acquitted.
What is "double jeopardy"?
100
This system was the result of efforts to create a more accurate crime database than the UCR.
What is the National Incident Based Reporting System?
100
This theory suggests that crime results when there is a motivated offender, suitable target, and absence of a capable guardian.
What is Routine Activities Theory?
200
This model’s goal is to protect the innocent as least as much as convict the guilty.
What is the "crime control" model?
200
This body of law is responsible for guiding how criminal laws are enforced and applied.
What is "procedural law"?
200
This amendment protects citizens against unreasonable government invasion of their privacy.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
200
The purpose of this type of crime survey is to ask individuals to describe their own criminality.
What are self report surveys?
200
This "father" of criminology proposed that punishment should "fit" the crime.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
300
This decree, signed in 1215, established that "no one is above the law."
What is the Magna Carta?
300
This term is Latin for "Let the decision stand."
What is stare decisis?
300
This amendment extended the protections of the Bill of Rights to the states.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
This term refers to the crimes we do not know about.
What is the "Dark Figure of Crime"?
300
This part of the brain is responsible for impulse control and rational, calculating thought.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
400
She is the Greek Goddess of Justice.
Who is Themis?
400
This is the requirement that new criminal law cannot be applied retroactively.
What is "ex post facto"?
400
This concept provides legal protection for defendants that they can not be tried for a crime after a certain specified amount of time has passed.
What is a "statue of limitations"?
400
This database, compiled annually by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, measures crime rates based primarily on arrest records.
What is the Uniform Crime Report?
400
The case of this Austin, Texas, mass murderer suggests that violence might be caused by brain damage and/or disease
Who is Charles Whitman?
500
These are the informal behavioral expectations of a group.
What are "norms"?
500
This Latin terms refers to criminal intent, or "guilty mind."
What is mens rea?
500
The law-making function lies in this branch of the United States government.
What is the legislative branch?
500
This survey contacts victims directly to ask them about crimes they have experiences within the past 12 months.
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey?
500
Known by the abbreviation "M.O." this term refers to what an offender does to successfully complete the crime and avoid being caught.