This field deals with apprehending, prosecuting, defending, sentencing, and jailing those involved in crimes.
What is Criminal Justice?
100
They established Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
Who are Candy Lightener and Cindi Lamb?
100
OVC
What is the Office for Victims of Crime?
100
Recognizing the poor treatment of crime victims by the criminal justice system, President Ronald Reagan formed the President’s Task Force on Victims of Crime in this year.
What is 1982?
100
The degree of proof required for convicting a defendant in a criminal proceeding?
What is Proof Beyond A Reasonable Doubt?
200
First offered in Great Britain in the 1950’s, and later becoming a government program, this program reimburses crime victims for their losses.
What is Victim Compensation?
200
This U.S. President endorsed and implemented the National Campaign for Victim Rights, including the establishment of a National Victims’ Rights Week.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
200
NOVA
What is the National Organization for Victim Assistance?
200
This federal law, first enacted in 1994, provides protections and services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
What is the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)?
200
The criminal sanction imposed by the court upon conviction of a defendant, usually in the form of incarceration, probation, or a fine.
What is the Sentence?
300
This movement helped launch the victims’ rights movement by highlighting the criminal justice system’s poor response to sexual assault and domestic violence.
What is the Women's Movement
300
This is the current Commissioner of Public Safety for the State of Minnesota.
Who is Mona Dohman?
300
MNVAA
What is the Minnesota Victim Assistance Academy?
300
Founded in 1978, this was the first national grassroots organization to support survivors of homicide.
What is Parents of Murdered Children (POMC)?
300
A written order by a judicial officer requiring a specified person to appear in a designated court at a specific time and place in order to serve as a witness and provide testimony.
What is a Subpoena?
400
The first U.S. academic program in victim services was developed at this university.
What is the University of California - Fresno?
400
In 1981, this young boy was kidnapped and murdered. His father, John Walsh, went on to found the National Center for Missing and Exploited Chilldren and host the t.v. show “America’s Most Wanted”.
Who is Adam Walsh?
400
OJP
What is the Office of Justice Programs?
400
This state initiated the first state victim compensation program in 1965.
What is California?
400
The degree of proof needed to lead a reasonably intelligent person to believe that a crime was committed and that it was committed by the person accused of committing it.
What is Probable Cause?
500
The first U.S. state to pass a Victims’ Bill of Rights.
What is Wisconsin?
500
Rachel’s Challenge is an organization named after Rachel Joy Scott, the first victim killed in this infamous school shooting.
What is the Columbine High School Shooting?
500
VOCA
What is the Victims of Crime Act?
500
This 2004 law enhanced and enforced rights for victims in the federal criminal justice system.
What is the Justice For All or Crime Victims’ Rights Act?
500
The decision of the judge or jury at the end of a trial that the accused defendant is either guilty or not guilty of the crime for which he or she has been tried.