Creating partnerships between police and citizens to reduce crime.
What is community policing?
100
Premeditated homicide committed with malice.
What is first degree murder?
100
George decides he wants to do donuts in the parking lot of the high school. While he is donutting, he hits and kills Todd who is taking a shortcut through the parking lot on his way home.
What is vehicular homicide or negligent homicide?
100
Allows a person to act illegally when an emergency situation (not of their own creation) compels them to do so to prevent greater harm from occurring.
What is necessity?
100
In general in the past decades, crime in America has...
What is declined?
200
Punish offenders with the goal of reducing recidivism/deferring future crime.
What is utilitarian theory of punishment?
200
Theft of personal property (regardless of amount)
What is larceny?
200
Judy entrusts bank manager Frank with $1000 from her savings account. Frank says he can double Judy's money in 1 month if he invests with her. Frank steals Judy's money and leaves town.
What crime has Frank committed?
What is embezzlement?
200
Defense that assumes that very young people are unable to develop the same intent as an adult, and thus they are not liable for the crime. Note: the exact age varies by state.
What is infancy defense? Not literal infants though.
200
This method, increasing the direct contact between the police and the people they serve, has been relatively effective in reducing crime.
What is community based policing?
300
Punish offenders because they did something wrong and they deserve to be punished.
What is retributive theory?
300
Producing a copy of a document/signature/work or art and passing it off as an original.
What is forgery?
300
Samantha gets a brand new bicycle. Jack tells Samantha that the bicycle is broken and he needs to fix it (it is not actually broken). Samantha agrees to let Jack take the bicycle. He does not return it.
What is fraud?
300
Traditional approach for insanity defense requiring a defendant to show that because of mental illness he or she did not know what he/she was doing or that it was wrong.
What is M'Naghten Rule?
300
List five causes of crime that we discussed in our debate.
What is poverty, drugs, gangs, mental illness, absentee parents, permissive laws, too few police, etc.?
400
Policy that if a person has committed two prior serious offenses, then after the conviction for their next serious crime, they would be sentenced to life in prison.
What is Three Strikes Law?
400
Sexual intercourse with someone under the age of consent.
What is statutory rape?
400
Zach and his friends enter Valley High School by impersonating a student and lying to the school secretary. They are planning to steal Valley's mascot, an adorable dog. They chicken out at the last minute without stealing the dog.
What is burglary?
400
A defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity because the criminal act was the product of the mental disease (i.e. the mental illness made them commit the crime, not another factor)
What is Durham Rule?
400
Theories on Causes of Crime
Conservative or Liberal or Both: economic inequality.
What is liberal?
500
The death penalty is an example of this. It is believed that, because people know that death is a possible punishment, they are less likely to commit a crime.
What is general deterrence?
500
Murder committed in the heat of the moment without no prior intention to kill. Provoked by a circumstance that would cause a reasonable person to become emotionally disturbed.
What is voluntary manslaughter?
500
Harold is planning a jewel heist at a local diamond store. The morning of the planned heist, Steve helps Harold look up train times and routes to make his getaway.
What is accessory before the fact?
500
Give two of the three elements of self-defense that you have to prove in order to successfully use this defense.
What is 1. Reasonably believe that the force was required for protection (even if wrong), 2. The threatened harm was imminent, 3. Force used was reasonable - no more than necessary?
500
Theories on Causes of Crime
Conservative or Liberal or Both: Permissive courts & inadequate policing.