What is the Criminal Justice System?
The system of institutions, policies, and practices with the goal of maintaining social control and deterring crime through sanctions and rehabilitation.
What is Criminal Justice
What is crime control perspective? p. 24
These crimes are most the most serious and regularly occurring crimes.
What is Part I Crimes? p. 38
Provides an explanation of why crime occurs more often in some settings, by certain individuals, to specific people.
What is theory? p. 61
What is the Code of Hammurabi? p. 67
Agencies that are charged with investigating crimes and arresting individuals alleged to have committed crimes.
What is law enforcement?
Refers to behavior that is immoral and inherently wrong by nature
What is mala in se?
This survey estimates the nature and extent of violent and property victimization in the United States.
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)? p. 36
This theory proposes that crime is caused by deteriorating communities.
What is social disorganization theory? p. 62
A less serious crime punishable by fine, forfeiture, or short-term confinement.
What is a misdemeanor? p. 81
Local facilities that detain people who have not been offered bail and those that can not make bail prior to trial.
What is jail? p. 9
This law allows residents to justificably use force, including deadly force against intruders if they or other individuals feel threatened.
What is castle doctrine? p 19
Crimes that fail to come to the attention of the police, because they were unreported, it was unclear a crime occurred, or no one learned that a crime was committed.
What is the dark figure of crime? p. 45
This perspective is less likely to focus on individual traits and instead, emphasizes the elements outside of a person's nature.
What is sociological perspective? p. 63
Name the three types of law.
What is constitutional law, civil law and administrative law? p. 73-78
Is different from criminal justice and refers to an academic discipline that investigates the nature, extent, and causes of criminal offending and criminal victimization.
This perspective advocates for the decriminalization and legalization of nonserious, victimless crimes, such as drunkenness, vagrancy, and possession and use of marijuana.
What is nonintervention perspective?
This rule differentiates the National Incidence-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) from the Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR)?
What is the hierarch rule? p. 43
What is the Critical/ Marxist perspective/theory? pg 63
Name the four goals of the law.
What is retribution, restitution, rehabilitation, and incapacitation? p. 72
Name the three primary components of the criminal justice system.
What are law enforcement, courts, and corrections?
Name the 5 perspectives of the criminal justice system.
What are crime control perspective, rehabilitative perspective, due process perspective, restorative justice perspective, and nonintervention perspective?
Name the three estimates of crime in the United States that are provided by the FBI.
What is the Uniform Crime Report (UCR), the Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR), and the Nation Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)? pg 36
This theory proposes that a lack of self-control, which is caused by bad parenting, results in criminal behavior.
What is general theory of crime? p. 62
This person became famous for his persistence in transforming the legal system. He is heavily associated with the Classical School.
Who is Cesare Becaria? p. 68