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A model of the criminal justice system that emphasizes efficiency, speed, and finality as well as the capacity to apprehend, try, convict, and dispose of a high proportion of clients.
What is crime control
A legal offense to which all parties consent and no party is injured.
What is victimless crimes.
A statistical summary of crimes reported to the police.
What is the Uniform Crime Report (UCR).
A non-violent crime where the primary motive is typically financial in nature
What is white-collar.
A concept used to define situations in which the victim initiates his or her own victimization.
What is victim precipitation.
A model of the criminal justice system that emphasizes the adversarial process, the rights of defendants, and formal decision-making procedures.
What is due process.
A violation of the law or of the public peace for political rather than private reasons.
What is political crime.
A source of crime data collected from interviews used to gather information on unreported as well as reported crimes.
What is National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
What is cybercrime.
A wrongful act or an infringement of a right leading to civil legal liability
What is tort.
A term used to describe conduct that is prohibited by laws, although not inherently evil.
What is mala prohibita.
A crime that is committed through opportunity created in the course of legal occupation.
What is occupational crime.
Views criminality as people's interactions with various organizations, institutions, and processes in society.
What is social process theory.
A system of law concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes
What is criminal law.
A program that provides information and aid to persons who have suffered direct physical or emotional, harm as a result of the commission of a crime.
What is a victim assistance program.
An act or offense that is evil or wrong by its own nature, regardless of law or statute.
What is mala in se.
Complex, highly centralized enterprises set up for the purpose of engaging in illegal activities.
What is organized crime.
Theory stresses that crime results from economic problems in neighborhood, how society is structured.
What is social structure theory.
The system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs
What is civil law.
Theory argues that crime patterns vary across the course of an individual's life in response to different causal factors.
What is life course theory.
Reasonable grounds (for making a search, pressing a charge, etc.).
What is probable cause.
Unreported or unrecorded criminal activity.
What is the dark figure of crime.
The study of what is understood as masculine and/or feminine and/or queer behavior in any given context, community, society, or field of study
What is gender theory.
Decisions are made that reflect the legal, social, political, and moral values of society.
What is goals of the criminal justice system.
Theory explains that people learn to become offenders from their environment.
What is differential association theory.