Justice
Law and Courts
Police
LE Agencies
Hodgepodge
100

Retributive, Restorative, Contributive, and Distributive are types of this.

What is ideal justice?

100

This amendment requires a grand jury indictment for serious crimes

What is the fifth amendment?

100

A strategy employed by police agencies to identify, analyze, respond to, and assess specific crime and disorder problems with the goal of creating effective responses to them

What is problem oriented policing?
100

An encompassing term that describes a broad range of law enforcement organizations of varying sizes, descriptions, and titles that provide police services to localities across the nation but have geographically restricted authority and jurisdiction

What is local police agencies?

100

This agency safeguards U.S. payment and financial systems including jurisdiction over crimes that involve financial institution fraud, computer and telecommunications fraud, false identification documents, access device fraud, advance fee fraud, electronic funds transfer, and money laundering

What is the Secret Service?

200

An essential part of criminal justice, refers to fairness as specifically defined by law.

What is legal justice?

200

In civil law, the person who brings suit against another (the defendant).

Who is the plaintiff?

200

A philosophy that promotes organizational strategies that support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues, such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime

What is community policing?

200

A term used to describe one of five types of clustered or grouped policing agencies, including ones that share services, a single police force, a regional agency, local mergers, or the provision of policing services under a contractual agreement

What is consolidated law enforcement agency?

200

These three elements are required for a case to be brought to the criminal court.

What are mens rea, actus reus, and concurrence?

300

The right of a recognized legal entity to govern or otherwise exert control over a specific geographic area

What is jurisdiction?

300

The clearest difference between civil procedures and criminal procedures

What is burden of proof or weight of the evidence?

300

This element of policing provides such activities as police patrol, traffic, community services, and investigations

What are field services?

300

An FBI-sponsored counterintelligence program intended to investigate and disrupt the activities of “anti-American” groups and organizations in the late 1960s and early 1970s that often used illegal methods to monitor, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt domestic political organizations viewed as enemies of the administration.

What is COINTELPRO?

300

This term means that something is inherently wrong.

What is mala in se?

400

The entire sociolegal process whereby fairness is sought in matters involving laws that define what is a crime, as well as what happens to those found to be engaged in such activities.

What is criminal justice?

400

Laws that define wrongful acts in which the prosecutor acts on behalf of the citizens of the state; often called penal law in that it provides for various punishments for those convicted of violations

What is criminal law?

400

This element of policing includes recruitment and training, technical services, planning, analysis and research, and records and communications.

What are administrative services?

400

The mission of this agency includes enforcement of all U.S. laws and regulations concerning controlled substances.

What is the DEA?

400

The UCR and NIBRS have this limitation in common.

What is voluntary participation of law enforcement agencies?

500

A sweeping anticrime act of Congress that created a number of federal bureaucracies, including LEAA; suspended interstate trade in handguns; and provided direct funds to deal with urban riot control and organized crime.

What is the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act?

500

The “rules of the game”; the processes by which the substantive (statutory) law is to be applied

What is procedural law?

500

A group of police personnel who all share a common police function

What is a police division?

500

This federal agency controls the asset forfeiture program and witness security program. 

What is the U.S. Marshall's Service?

500

An act or failure to act proven in a court of law to be in violation of a criminal code and punished by a lawful authority (legal)

What is crime?