Criminal Law
This type of law is also known as the "law on the books".
What is statutory law?
This is a proactive approach to the problem of crime.
What is crime prevention?
The principle of recognizing previous decisions as precedents to guide future deliberations is called this.
What is stare decisis?
This federal law enforcement agency operates one of the largest crime labs in the world.
Who is the FBI?
This amendment guarantees against self-incrimination.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
The body of rules and regulations that define and specify the nature of and punishments for offenses of a public nature for wrongs committed against the state or society is called this.
What is criminal law?
This police strategy emphasizes an increased capacity to deal with crimes that are not well controlled by traditional methods.
What is strategic policing?
This terms means "guilty act".
What is actus reus?
The first modern state police agency was created in this state.
What is Pennsylvania?
Unreasonable searches and seizures are prohibited by this Amendment.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This is the philosophy of law.
What is Jurisprudence?
This era is said to have grown out of national concerns with terrorism prevention.
What is the new era?
The term mens rea means this.
What is guilty mind?
This is when law enforcement officers exercise choice while carrying out their duties.
What is police discretion?
The applicability of constitutional rights to all citizens, regardless of state law or procedure is guaranteed by this Amendment.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This part of the law specifies the methods to be used in enforcing substantive law.
What is procedural law?
The broken windows model of policing focuses on this element of the police mission.
What is preserving the peace?
This allows appellate courts to review the record of a lower court case
What is a writ of certiorari?
This city contains the nation's largest law enforcement agency.
What is New York?
This U.S. Supreme Court cases held that electronic eavesdropping was a search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment.
What is Katz v. U.S.?
This refers to a traditional body of unwritten historical precedents created from everyday social customs, rules, and practices.
What is common law?
This model of state policing combines criminal investigations with patrol of state highways.
What is the centralized model of state policing?
Together, the act and the intent make up this.
What is the corpus delecti?
This describes the order of authority within a police department.
What is the chain of command?
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the suspect of a robbery could not be ordered to undergo surgery because such a magnitude of intrusion into his body was unacceptable under the right to privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.
What is Winston v. Lee?