Justice or Justwater
The 1000 Words of Crime
Crime and Punishment
Legalease or Legalhard
Truth is the Best Defense
100

This is the concept of fair and equal treatment in adjudication.

What is justice?

100

This was the first effort to capture crime data through the UCR.

What is the Crime Index?

100

The two categories of offenses tracked by NIBRS are known as these.

What are Part 1 and Part 2 offenses?

100

The traditional body of unwritten laws derived from British case law is referred to as this.

What is common law?

100

This Amendment provides the procedural defense of not being granted a speedy trial.

What is the 6th Amendment?

200

A defendant's first exposure to the corrections system for fingerprints and photographs after an arrest is known as this.

What is booking?

200

This is a self-report survey conducted by DOJ to gather data about crime.

What is the NCVS?

200

The killing of multiple people at one time and in one location is this type of multicide.

What is a mass murder?

200

This is the written body of laws that consist of the criminal law and its punishment.

What is substantive law?

200

This is the most conclusive defense that is likely to demonstrate true innocence.

What is an alibi?

300

This is the purpose of the Preliminary Hearing.

What is to establish probable cause?

300

The only offense not tracked through NCVS is this.

What is murder?

300

This is the repeated harassing and threatening behavior by one individual against another, aspects of which may be planned or carried out in secret.

What is stalking?

300

A classification of crimes along a particular dimension, such as legal categories, offender motivation, victim behavior, or the characteristics of individual offenders is referred to as this?

What is crime typology?

300

Self defense, defense of others, and defense of property are examples of this category of criminal defenses.

What is justification?

400

These two conditions must be met before Miranda Rights must be advised; also known as Miranda Triggers.

What are custody and interrogation?

400

The improvement of the data collection system used in UCR resulted in this crime tracking method used today.

What is NIBRS?

400

This strict liability crime is the nonforcible rape with a victim younger than the age of consent.

What is statutory rape?

400

The Latin phrases for these features of a crime refer to the prohibited act and the guilty mind.

What are actus reus and mens rea?

400

The procedural defense asserting the government illegally coerced the defendant to commit the criminal act is this.

What is entrapment?

500

The use of scientific data and social science research to improve effectiveness of the justice process refers to this.

What is Evidence Based Practices?

500

That crime data unknown to the justice system but that reflects crime occurring nonetheless is referred to as this.

What is the Dark Figure of crime?

500

This is the unlawful use of force or violence by a group to assert a political or social agenda upon a nation whose activities transcend national boundaries.

What is international terrorism?

500

This maxim holds that an orderly society must be governed by established principles.

The Rule of Law?

500

The precedent from British case law that establishes the measure of insanity in criminal cases is this rule.

What is the M 'Naughton Rule?

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