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People who are detained by immigration authorities due to issues related to their immigration status or potential deportation are also persons deprived of liberty or individuals whose visa status has expired
Immigration detention
This roles involve usages of statistics in order to inform a case
Actuarial
In some cases, individuals with severe mental health issues maybe involuntarily detained in psychiatric hospitals for their safety or the safety of others. They are also considered persons deprived of liberty, and their detention is subject to legal regulations
Psychiatric hospitals
Im situation involving national security concerns, governments may detain individuals who are perceived as threts to national security. These detainees are also considered PDL
National security detention
Minors who are placed in juvenile detention centers or similar facilities as a result of their involvement in criminal activities are considered PDL. These facilities are designed to hold young offenders separately from adult prison population
Youth detention centers
Focused on the studying the physical characteristics of offenders in the attempts to discover physical differences between criminal and non-criminals.
Anthropological approach
Sometimes called the external element of a crime
Actus reus
This criminals are those considered as born criminals
Atavistic
A social movement that arose during the 18th century on that built upon ideas like empiricism, rationality, freewill, humanism and natural law
Age of enlightenment
The art of creating typologies classification, prediction and specially profile of criminal offender, there personalities and behavior patterns.
Applied criminology
Is something deviating from the normal or differing from typical, is a subjectively define behavioral characteristic, assign to those with rare or dysfunctional conditions
Abnormal behavior
This person skinny with ribs easily counted and slender body type. This type usually commits crimes known as petty theft and fraud
Asthenic type
This person has board sholder, powerful legs and muscular body type. This type usually commit violent crimes
Athletic type
A psychologist may advise police about how to proceed with the investigation
Advisory
Excuses as defendant who because of a mental disease or defect lacks substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality (wrongfulness) of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law (Model Penal Code Sec. 4.01)
Ali test
Science devoted to the study of man-kind
Anthropology
The process by which societal reactions to deviant behavior can escalate and exacerbate criminality
Deviance amplification
Those who commit crime in an impulsive manner usually due to the aggressive behavior of the offender
Active aggressive criminal
An explanatory framework that explores crime as a product of the convergence of motivated offenders, suitable targets, and lack of capable guardians
Routine activity theory
An approach to crime that emphasizes repairing harm caused to victims and communities, rather than punitive measures
Restorative justice
A strategy to reduce crime by modifying the physical environment to determine criminal activity
Crime prevention through environment design (CPTED)
The authority of criminal justice professional to make decisions based on their judgement and interpretation
Discretion
The sequence of events, including arrest, booking, trial and sentencing that individuals go through within the criminal justice system
Criminal justice processing
The use of geographic information systems (GIS), to analyze and visualize crime patterns and trends
Crime mapping
A legal document issued by a court that authorized law enforcement to search a specific location for evidence of criminal activity
Search warrant
Threatening to reveal someone secret if a lot of money is not paid
Blackmail
Giving money or granting someone’s favor to influence another person’s decision or behavior
Bribery
Prepare for tone prints
Buff paper
Breaking into a house in order to steal something
Burglary
Treating a child badly in physical, emotional, or sexual way
Child abuse
A complaint is a sworn written statement charging a person with an offense
Complaint
Not excluded by law
Competent evidence
An acknowledgement of guilt
Confession
Doing something illegal that can be punished by law
Crime
A place where the alleged crime incident has been committed
Crime scene
A person who convicted by final judgment
Criminal
Analysis of the cause of crime
Criminal etiology
Getting money from people by cheating them
Fraud
Illegal copying documents, money, etc to cheat
Forgery
Not stopping to help a person hurt in an accident caused by you
Hit and run
Killing another person unintentionally
Homicide
Killing someone on purpose
Murder
Attacking someone with a plan to rob them
Mugging
Known as a post-mortem examination, necropsy, and autopsia
Autopsy
Sensitive film - sensitive to U.V light and blue color
Blue
Serve as neutralizer
Boric acid
Victimology is the study of the psychological and social effects of crime and victims and the interactions with the criminal justice system
Victimology
The propensity to engage in criminal behavior
Criminality
Legal matters that involve disputes between individual or entities, distinct from criminal law
Civil law
The illegal use of someone else’s personal information for financial gain
Identity theft
