Definitions
A person that has suffered direct physical, emotional, or financial harm due to the commission of a crime.
What is a Victim?
A public official appointed to decide cases in a court of law.
What is the Judge?
How many Family Courts?
What is 5?
Targeting individuals based on race or ethnicity, rather than any suspicious behavior.
What is racial profiling?
People of color are for more likely than white to be caught in the criminal justice system.
What is True?
A person whose job is to enforce the laws, protect the community, investigate crimes, and make arrest.
What is a police officer?
The person that is accused of the crime.
What is the Defendant?
An approach to restore the victims, the lawbreaker, and the community to a level of functioning that existed prior to the criminal event.
What is Restorative Justice?
Unconscious prejudices or stereotypes that can influence decisions without awareness.
What is Implicit Bias?
Race is a concept use to distinguish people according to their cultural characteristics-language, religion, and group traditions.
What is False?
This houses both the people who are awaiting trial and those who have been sentenced for a crime, usually serving one-year or less.
What is Jail?
They represent a defendant in a criminal prosecution.
What is Defense Attorney?
Is a court-imposed criminal sentence that, subject to stated conditions and restrictions, releases a convicted defendant into the community instead of confining them to jail or prison.
What is Probation?
Embedded patterns of discrimination within institutions and systems that disadvantage people of color.
What is Systemic Racism?
Cultural Competency is the ability to understand and effectively interact with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.
What is True?
Institution of incarceration of people convicted of crimes, usually felonies.
What is Prison?
How many juvenile courts are located in New York City?
What is 5?
They are responsible for writing the presentence investigations.
What is a Probation Officer?
A minor criminal offense punishable by a fine and/or jail time for up to one year.
What is a misdemeanor?
The Criminal Court is a trial court that hears civil and criminal cases.
What is False?
The conditional release of an individual from incarceration, under supervision, and after the prison sentence has been served
What is Parole?
They represent the city on Criminal Court and Supreme Court cases.
What is the District Attorney's Office?
An offense that occurs when you break the terms or conditions of your probation
What is Probation Violation?
An offense punishable by a sentence of more than a year in state or federal prison and sometimes by death.
What is a Felony?
Judges' must be reappointed after 5 years.
What is False?