Police
This is a slogan advocating for reallocating funds from police departments to non-policing forms of public safety and community support.
What is "Defund the police"?
This is sometimes referred to as the court of last resort
What is The US Supreme Court?
This is a place where criminals are kept to punish them for their crimes, or where people accused of crimes are kept while waiting for their trials?
What are Jails?
This is the year that heroin was outlawed in the United States (except for medical use). This year was also the year that WWI began.
What is 1914?
(Via The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914)
General Strain Theory (GST), developed by Robert Agnew, proposes that a wide range of strains or stressors can increase the likelihood of this
What is criminal behavior?
There are approximately this many police agencies in the United States, encompassing a wide range of federal, state, county, and local law enforcement bodies. This figure includes local police departments, sheriff's offices, state troopers, and various federal agencies.
What is 18,000?
This is the standard of proof required in most criminal cases.
What is "Beyond a reasonable doubt"?
Probation and parole are both forms of this, but they occur at different stages of the criminal justice process
What is community supervision?
(Community Corrections or punishment within the community)
The number of cocaine overdose deaths in combination with 'this' has increased significantly since 2015 and is the main driver of cocaine-involved overdose deaths
What is fentanyl?
This refers to nonviolent crimes committed by individuals in business or government for financial gain, often involving fraud, embezzlement, or corruption
What are White Collar crimes?
The earliest form of policing in the U.S. was 'this' established in the Carolinas in the early 1700s.
What are slave patrols?
In a legal context, 'this' refers to the standard of proof used in civil cases
What is "preponderance of the evidence"?
This state incarcerates the highest number of people in the United States.
What is Texas?
Cocaine, Crack, and Caffeine are similar in that they are all this.
What are stimulants?
This is the amount of unreported, undetected, or undiscovered crime, and is a central concept of victimology, highlighting the limitations of solely relying upon official crime statistics.
What is The Dark Figure of Crime?
(less commonly referred to as the hidden figure of crime, or latent criminality)
The two primary functions of the police are...
What are Crime Control & Order Maintenance?
(Law enforcement, crime fighting)
Mandatory minimum sentences, truth in sentencing laws, and 'this' have led to longer prison sentences, increased prison populations, and disproportionate impacts on certain racial and ethnic groups.
What are habitual offender laws?
(Three strikes laws)
This Pennsylvania prison was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin.
What is Eastern State Penitentiary?
The amount of a chemical that is lethal to one-half (50%) of the experimental animals exposed to it
This scandal centered on judicial kickbacks to two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US.
What is kids for cash?
This is an informal, unspoken agreement among law enforcement officers not to report or disclose misconduct or wrongdoing committed by other officers.
What is the police code of silence?
(also known as the "blue wall of silence")
This is the act of a jury returning a "not guilty" verdict in a criminal trial, even if they believe, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant has committed the crime
What is Jury nullification?
This US state executed its first inmate by firing squad on March 7, 2025, and then executed a second inmate, Mikal Mahdi, by firing squad on April 11, 2025.
What is South Carolina?
AMC's “Breaking Bad” offers a glimpse into the dark and gritty world of this.
What is crystal meth?
(Also will accept, Meth or Amphetamines)
This crim theory posits that individuals engage in criminal behavior when their bonds to society are weakened or broken.
What is control theory?
(Social control theory, social bonding theory)