What is Criminal Justice ?
This model best assumes that the system’s components work together harmoniously to achieve justice.
What is the consensus model?
Contains national crime statistics and data on crimes reported to the police.
What is the Uniform Crime Report?
A violation of social norms defining appropriate or proper behavior under a particular set of circumstances
What is deviance?
These are law of the books
What is statutory law?
an early English law enforcement unit formed by Henry Fielding
Issued by a judge and provides the legal basis for an apprehension of suspects by police.
Killing at least four victims at one location during one event.
What is a mass murder?
A theory that emphasizes free will and reasonable punishments
What is classical theory?
A law that specifies when a search warrant may be issued to the police
What is procedural law?
information about a crime that forms the basis for determining the identity of the perpetrator.
What is the solvability factor?
During this stage in the criminal justice process suspects are photographed and fingerprinted
What is booking?
The unlawful, intentional inflicting, or attempted or threatened inflicting, of serious injury upon the person of another.
What is aggravated assault?
Characterized by a motivated offender, lack of capable guardian
What is routine activity theory?
Refers to the criminal act element of the crime
What is the actus reus?
the order of authority within a police department
What is chain of command?
This Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives every defendant the right to a trial by jury.
What is the 6th amendment?
the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft
What is burglary?
set of interrelated propositions that attempt to describe, explain, predict, and ultimately control some class of events
What is a theory?
Requires that the criminal act and the mental state occur together in order for a crime to take place
What is concurrence?
Enforcing the letter of the law characterizes this style of policing.
What is the legalistic style of policing?
This amendment protects all persons from cruel and unusual punishment and excessive bail.
the unlawful taking or attempted taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property, from the possession or constructive possession of another.
What is larceny/theft?
Emphasizes the role of learning in crime causation.
What is social process/learning?
A legal defense in which the defendant admits to committing the act in question but claims it was necessary in order to avoid some greater evil.
What is a justification defense?
What is the 4th amendment?