CAREERS
A person who work to enforce laws on a local, state, or federal level while protecting the lives of citizens.
What is a Police Officer?
A group of people sworn to give a verdict in a legal case on the basis of evidence submitted to them in court.
What is a Jury?
Stealing goods from retail stores by concealment, generally on the person of the defendant. Commission does not require removal of the goods from the store.
What is Shoplifting?
The right not to answer police questions both while in custody or in court.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on difference in race/ethnicity.
What is Racism?
A person who works at crime scenes and analyzes every aspect of it, finding and collecting evidence such as DNA and fingerprints.
What is a Crime Scene Investigator?
This is a monetary guarantee deposited with the court that is supposed to ensure that the suspect or defendant will appear at a later stage in the criminal justice process.
What is bail?
Conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a state, the federal government, or a local jurisdiction
What is a crime?
The decision of a trial court, usually provided by a jury.
What is a Verdict?
Discrimination and prejudice against individuals or groups based on their education, employment or income.
What is Classism?
A person who gives information to law enforcement officials about a crime or planned criminal activity.
What is an Informant?
The person or party against whom a lawsuit or prosecution is brought.
What is the defendant?
The most serious grade of crime; usually includes possibility of prison sentence.
What is a Felony?
The rights guaranteed to all members of American society by the U.S. Constitution
What is Individual rights?
A broad term for action intended to create genuine equality, fairness, and respect among peoples.
What is Social Justice?
A federal police agency that is tasked with counterfeit money investigations.
What is the Secret Service?
You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can be used against you in court, you have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford an attorney one will be provided for you at no cost.
What is The Miranda Warnings?
A criminal offense that is less serious than a felony and more serious than an infraction.
What is a Misdemeanor?
A jury that is unable to reach a decision.
What is Hung Jury?
A collective term for men and women of Asian, African, Latin, and Indigenous backgrounds.
What is People of Color?
A person who works to protect the United States from espionage, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and organized crime.
What is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent?
Which of the following is an effort to do something for victims and their survivors—to return them, as much as possible, to their previous state and to make them “whole” again?
What is Restoration?
The principle of fairness; the ideal of moral equity.
What is Justice?
A criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated in whole or in part, by the offenders bias against race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity
What is a Hate Crime?
A set of shared values, goals, attitudes and traditions that characterize a group of people.
What is Culture?