Types of Law & Legal Foundations
This type of law governs disputes between private individuals.
What is civil law?
This model prioritizes efficiency and suppression of crime to protect society.
What is the crime control model?
Crime that is never reported to police is known as this.
What is the dark figure of crime?
The physical act of committing a crime is called this.
What is actus reus?
These are the three major components of the CJS.
What are police, courts, and corrections?
This is the burden of proof required in criminal court.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
This model emphasizes procedural safeguards and constitutional protections.
What is the due process model?
This national survey collects victimization data and helps uncover unreported crime.
What is the NCVS?
The guilty mind or intent behind a criminal act is known as this.
What is mens rea?
Using race or ethnicity as the primary basis for suspicion is called this.
What is racial profiling?
This body of law governs the creation and functioning of government agencies.
What is administrative law?
What is the conflict perspective?
This FBI program collects arrest data and follows the hierarchy rule.
What is the UCR?
The principle requires that the guilty act and guilty mind occur together.
What is concurrence?
Favoring or disfavoring someone based on protected characteristics is known as this.
What is discrimination?
What are mala in se crimes?
This perspective argues laws represent a shared agreement about right and wrong.
What is the consensus perspective?
This rule means only the most serious offense is an incident is counted.
What is the hierarchy rule?
This defense argues the defendant did not know right from wrong due to mental illness.
What is the insanity defense?
Intimate partner violence (IPV) can include physical, emotional, and this additional type of abuse.
What is sexual abuse?
The individual who initiates a civil lawsuit is called this.
Who is the plaintiff?
This justice model focuses on transforming offenders through treatment and services.
What is rehabilitation?
Name one limitation of official crime statistics.
Underreporting, reporting bias, police discretion. hierarchy rule, etc.
This defense argues law enforcement induced someone to commit a crime they otherwise would not have committed.
What is entrapment?
True or false: The definition of crime is static and never changes.
False