Crime
The study of crime
What is criminology?
Material found that indicates something is true
What is evidence?
The scientific study of crime, the criminal law, and components of the criminal justice system, including the police, courts, and corrections.
What is criminal justice?
the scientific study of the mind and behavior
What is psychology?
a person thought to be guilty of a crime or offense.
What is suspect?
What is Crime?
People who analyze evidence from crime scenes
What is forensic scientists?
The first jail in America
What is Walnut Street Jail?
the relationship between social factors and crime
What is sociological criminology?
a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.
What is victim?
Public order crime
What is prostitution?
large database, compiled by the FBI, of crimes reported and arrests made each year throughout the US
What is Uniform Crime Report (UCR)?
The legal imposition of a sentence of death upon a convicted offender
What is death penalty?
Explosive rage disorder considered a cause of abuse, suicide, aggressiveness, and homicide
What is minimal brain dysfunction?
Key factor to early signs of criminality
What is poor parent discipline?
Number of stages when handling a crime scene
What are 7 stages?
a structured process where the facts of a case are presented to a jury, and they decide if the defendant is guilty or not guilty of the charge offered.
What is a trial?
Three police/citizen encounters
What is consensual encounter, temporary detention, arrest?
individuals who commit at least three murders during distinct episodes with periods in between when they appear normal
What is serial killer?
the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried; prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution
What is double jeopardy?
a serious crime
the act of defending or explaining by reasoning
What is justification?
The basis for the US legal system
What is the mosaic code?
How many theories in criminology?
What is 14 theories?
Americas biggest serial killer
What is Ted Bundy?