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Ch 1: Overview of the Criminal Justice System Flashcards

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Recidivism

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

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High risk

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Someone likely to re-offend

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Low risk

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Someone not likely to re-offend

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Offender

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Person guilty of crime

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Defendant

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Person accused

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Victim

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

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Mal in se

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Evil in itself (morally wrong; social construct)

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Mal prohibita

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Wrong because it’s law

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Goals of the criminal justice system

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Justice, crime control, and crime prevention

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Legislative branch

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Makes laws (congress)

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Executive branch

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

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Judicial branch

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Evaluates laws (supreme courts, appellate courts)

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Evidence based practice

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

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Federal government

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

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State government

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

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Discretion

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Being given some leeway by officer

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Resource dependence

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

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Subsequential tasks

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

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Filtering

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

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Misdemeanor

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

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Felony

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More serious crimes with over a year sentence (prison)

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