Ch 1: Overview of the Criminal Justice System

Question 1

Recidivism

Answer 1

Persons relapse back into criminal bahavior (often recieves sanction and goes under investigation)

Question 2

High risk

Answer 2

Someone likely to re-offend

Question 3

Low risk

Answer 3

Someone not likely to re-offend

Question 4

Offender

Answer 4

Person guilty of crime

Question 5

Defendant

Answer 5

Person accused

Question 6

Victim

Answer 6

Someone affected, hurt, damaged, killed, or suffered by a crime

Question 7

Mal in se

Answer 7

Evil in itself (morally wrong; social construct)

Question 8

Mal prohibita

Answer 8

Wrong because it’s law

Question 9

Goals of the criminal justice system

Answer 9

Justice, crime control, and crime prevention

Question 10

Legislative branch

Answer 10

Makes laws (congress)

Question 11

Executive branch

Answer 11

Carries out laws (president, VP, cabinet, federal agencies)

Question 12

Judicial branch

Answer 12

Evaluates laws (supreme courts, appellate courts)

Question 13

Evidence based practice

Answer 13

Use of skills, techniques, and strategies that we know work since they’ve been researched and demonstrated by evidence and proven to work

Question 14

Federal government

Answer 14

US government/courts; laws by congress; deals with specific issues

Question 15

State government

Answer 15

State courts, appellate courts; legislative laws; deals with wide range of issues

Question 16

Discretion

Answer 16

Being given some leeway by officer

Question 17

Resource dependence

Answer 17

Criminal justice agencies don’t generate their own funds so they depend on other agencies for operation funds

Question 18

Subsequential tasks

Answer 18

It explains the steps in case processing, starting with apprehension and arrest, prosecution and pretrial services, adjudication, sentencing, and corrections

Question 19

Filtering

Answer 19

As people move into the criminal justice system they’re funneled out as they go through each step

Question 20

Misdemeanor

Answer 20

Lesser crimes with under a year sentence (jail or fine)

Question 21

Felony

Answer 21

More serious crimes with over a year sentence (prison)