A specialist in the field of crime and the causes of criminal behavior.
What is a Criminalist?
100
The branch of law dealing with the definition and enforcement of all private or public rights, as opposed to criminal matters.
What is Civil Law?
100
A criminal justice model in which the majority of citizens in a society share the same values and beliefs. Criminal acts are acts that conflict with these values and beliefs and that are deemed harmful to society
What is Consensus Model?
100
Wrong in themselves; a description applied to crimes that are characterized by universality and timelessness.
What is mala in se?
200
You don't have the ability to distinguish from right from wrong.
What is the insanity defense?
200
A school of criminology based on the belief that individuals have free will to engage in any behavior, including criminal behavior.
What is Classical Criminology?
200
The person or institution that initiates a lawsuit in civil court proceedings by filing a complaint.
Who is the Plaintiff?
200
Offenses that are illegal because laws define them as such.
What is mala prohibita?
300
When a government agent entices you to commit a crime?
Entrapment
300
A school of the social science that sees criminal and delinquent behavior as the result of biological, psychological and social forces.
What is Positivism?
300
In a civil court, the person or institution against whom an action is brought .
Who is the Defendant?
300
An act that is illegal for a juvenile but would not be a crime if committed by an adult.
What is a status offense?
400
A politically defined geographical area where you have the authority to work.
What is Jurisdiction?
400
An approach to ethical reasoning in which the correct decision is the one that results in the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people.
What is Utilitarianism?
400
The degree of proof required to find the defendant guilty in a criminal trial.
What is Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
400
A criminal justice model that places primacy on the rights of the individual to be protected from the power of the government.
What is the Due Process Model?
500
A criminal justice model that places primary emphasis on the right of society to be protected from crime and violent criminals.
What is Crime Control Model?
500
An explanation of a happening or circumstance that is based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning.
What is a Theory?
500
A descriptive term for acts that are inherently wrong, regardless of whether they are prohibited by law.
What is Mala in se?
500
A measure of the incidence of crime expressed as the number of crimes per unit of population or some other base.