Justifications of Criminal Justice
Legal stuff
Crime and Criminalization
The Police
Marine Life
100
This justification emphasizes removing criminals from society
What is incapacitation?
100
This landmark Supreme Court ruling against the state of Ohio justified what later became known as "Terry Stops"
What is Terry v Ohio?
100
Various scholars have argued that vagrancy laws can be traced back to these racist laws in the Reconstruction Era?
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
The consent decree over SPD mandated supervision from this federal agency
What is the DOJ?
100
This animal is known to be the largest living clam in the world, weighing up to 550 lbs
What is the Giant Clam?
200
Natapoff argues that misdemeanors fail to achieve any traditional justifications in exchange for this
What is revenue generation?
200
This model emphasizes a prosecutor's response to the community
What is the community prosecutor?
200
This movement championed fewer involuntary commitments for those with mental illness
What is Deinstitutionalization?
200
This amendment protects against, among other things, unreasonable search and seizures
What is the Fourth Amendment?
200
Many scientists believe salmon use this to navigate extremely far distances and return to their home stream to breed
What is the Earth's Magnetic Field?
300
This justification emphasizes helping criminals break out of criminal behavior and become productive and lawful members of society
What is restorative/rehabilitative justice?
300
This is a pre-trial determination made to determine whether a defendant can stand trial, but is not itself a defense
What is competency?
300
Attribution theory asserts that individuals rely on these types of attribution to make sense of other's behavior, which is often biased along racial lines in the United States
What are situational/structural and dispositional attributions?
300
This concept refers to the automatic assumption of expertise of police officers, especially in disciplinary settings
What is deference/"good cop paradigm"?
300
These are the three taxonomic groupings of pinnipeds
What are "True Seals" (phocids), Eared Seals (otariids) and Walruses (odobenids)
400
In criminal justice, deterrence requires these two things to succeed
What is certainty and severity?
400
In exercising discretion, prosecutors balance these two legal concepts
What are proportionality and equality?
400
Washington state defines acts that ``unlawfully interfere with, befoul, obstruct, or tend to obstruct, or render dangerous for passage, a lake, navigable river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or a public park, square, street, alley, highway, or municipal transit vehicle or station,'' among other things, as this.
What is a public nuisance?
400
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act found that only this person can sue for excessive use of force complaints
Who is the Attorney General?
400
These frequent visitors to the Puget Sound are believed to have the longest annual migration of all mammals
What are Gray Whales?
500
The "eye for an eye" principle can be traced back to this Babylonian sculpture
What is the "Stele of Hammurabi?"
500
This case ruled that ``in order to commit person involuntarily, State must prove that there is an extreme likelihood that if the person is not confined s/he will do immediate harm to self or others.''
What is Lessard v. Schmidt?
500
Abrego et al argue this bill is largely responsible for the unchecked criminalization of immigration status by increasing the number of crimes that require mandatory detention
What is Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA)?
500
British rock band behind hit singles "Every Breath You Take," "Roxanne," and "Every Little THing She Does Is Magic"
Who is the Police?
500
These are the five salmon native to the Puget Sound
