Criminal Justice System
Behavior that is considered to go against the norms established by society.
A. Assault
B. Robbery
C. Conflict Model
D. Deviance
Criminological theory stating that signs of urban decay (e.g., abandon buildings, unrepaired structures, graffiti) signal that an area is not monitored, encouraging more destructive criminal behavior.
A. Criminology
B. Broken-Window Theory
C. Classical School
D. Correlation
B. Broken-Window Theory
The person or institution that initiates a lawsuit in civil court proceedings by filing a complaint.
A. Defendant
B. Liability
C. Plaintiff
D. Civil Law
C. Plaintiff
The body of law enacted by legislative bodies.
A. Ballot Initiative
B. Statutory Law
C. Constitutional Law
D. Case Law
B. Statutory Law
The medical examiner of a county, usually elected by popular vote.
A. Sheriff
B. Coroner
C. Private Security
D. U.S. Marshal Service
B. Coroner
The act of taking property from another person through force, threat of force, or intimidation.
A. Larceny
B. Robbery
C. Battery
D. Burglary
B. Robbery
The relationship between two measurements or behaviors that tend to move in the same direction.
A. Criminologist
B. Cause
C. Theory
D. Correlation
D. Correlation
A homicide in which the intent to kill was present in the mind of the offender, but malice was lacking.
A. Involuntary Manslaughter
B. Infraction
C. Malice Aforethought
D. Voluntary Manslaughter
D. Voluntary Manslaughter
Mental state, or intent.
A. Mens Rea
B. Actus Reus
C. Corpus Delicti
D. Precedent
A. Mens Rea
The federal agency responsible for protecting U.S. borders and facilitating legal trade and travel across those borders.
A. U.S. Border Patrol
B. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
C. U.S. Secret Service
D. U.S. Customs and Border Protection
D. U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Nonviolent crimes committed by businesses entities or individuals to gain a personal or business advantage.
A. White-Collar Crime
B. Public Order Crime
C. Organized Crime
D. criminal Justice System
A. White-Collar Crime
Of criminology emerged, focusing on five basic tenets: Rationality, or the idea that people choose to commit crimes. Punishment acting as a deterrent to crime.
A. Choice Theory
B. Classical School
C. Classical Criminology
D. General Theory of Crime
B. Classical School
A method of gathering crime data that relies on participants to reveal and detail their own criminal or delinquent behavior.
A. Victim Surveys
B. Self-Reported Survey
C. Part 1 Offenses
D. Mala prohibita
B. Self-Reported Surveys
Certain crimes, such as traffic violations, in which the defendant is guilty regardless of his or her state of mind at the time of the act.
A. Attendant Circumstance
B. Inchoate Offenses
C. Strict Liability Crimes
D. Infancy
C. Strict Liability Crimes
A federal law enforcement agency primarily concerned with protecting members of the federal judiciary and witnesses in federal criminal trials, and transporting federal prisoners when necessary.
A. U.S. Marshal Service
B. U.S. Secret Service
C. U.S. Border Patrol
D. Federal Bureau of Investigation
A. U.S. Marshal Service
A criminal justice model that places primary emphasis on the right of society to be protected for crime and violent criminals. Advocates of crime control would strongly favor the use of the death penalty or lengthy incarceration.
A. Due Process Model/Perspective
B. Terrorism
C. Crime Control Model/Perspective
D. Homeland Security
C. Crime Control Model/Perspective
Jermey Bentham, an ethical hedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain that it produced. The felicific calculus could, in principle at least, determine the moral status of any considered act.
A. Classical Criminology
B. Positivism
C. Hypothesis
D. Hedonistic Calculus
D. Hedonistic Calculus
A synthetic stimulant that creates a strong feeling of euphoria in the user and is highly addictive.
A. Crack Cocaine
B. Infraction
C. Methamphetamine
D. Misdemeanor
C. Methamphetamine
Conduct deemed criminal without actual harm being done, provided that the harm that would have occurred is one the law tries to prevent.
A. Inchoate Offenses
B. Insanity
C. Substantial Capacity Test
D. Irresponsible-Impulse Test
A. Inchoate Offenses
The federal agency responsible for enforcing the nation’s laws and regulations regarding narcotics and other controlled substances.
A. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
B. Federal Bureau of Investigation
C. Drug Enforcement Administration
D. Private Security
C. Drug Enforcement Administration
Illegal acts carried out by illegal organizations engaged in the market for illegal goods or services.
A. White-Collar Crime
B. Organized Crime
C. Public Order Crime
D. Justice
C. Public Order Crime
A theory based on the assumption that members of certain subcultures reject the values of the dominant culture through deviant behavior patterns.
A. Cultural Deviance Theory
B. Social Disorganization Theory
C. psychoanalytic theory
D. Social Psychology
A. Cultural Deviance Theory
A depraved state of mind in which the offender’s behavior shows a lack of concern for the well being of his or her victims.
A. Preponderance of the Evidence
B. Felony
C. Mala in se
D. Malice Aforethought
D. Malice Aforethought
Latin for “after the fact,” it refers to a law making a certain act illegal after that act was committed. That is, when the act took place, it was still legal.
A. Actus Reas
B. Ex Post Facto Law
C. Corpus Delicit
D. Mens Rea
B. Ex Post Facto Law
A federal law enforcement organization with the primary responsibility of protecting the president, the president’s family, the vice president, and other important political figures.
A. Federal Bureau of Investigation
B. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
C. U.S. Customs and Border Protection
D. U.S. Secret Service
D. U.S. Secret Service