Terms to Know
Crimes and Criminals
Places of Confinement
100

The attempt to improve conditions inside prisons and improve effectiveness of the correctional system.

What is Prison Reform?

100

Possessing any illicit controlled substance such as marijuana, cocaine, and heroin.

What is possession?

100

A long term criminal holding facility.

What is Prison?

200

The state of being confined in prison; imprisonment.

What is incarceration?

200

The selling of illegal drugs on a small scale.

What is dealing?

200

Prison for people under the age of eighteen.

What is Juvenile Detention?

300

The american phrase denoting policies to reduce the illegal drug trade.

What is War on Drugs?

300

The selling of illegal drugs on a large scale.

What is Trafficking? 

300

A place for those awaiting trial or minor crimes.

What is jail?

400

Relating to or concerned with the interaction of social and economic factors.

What is socioeconomic?

400

A Colombian drug lord, politician, and leader of the Medellin Cartel. 

Who is Pablo Escobar?

400

A facility that provides medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for substance dependability.

What is a Rehabilitation facility?