Chapters 1, 2, & 3

Question 1

What are the three components of the criminal justice system?

Answer 1

Police, Courts, Corrections

Question 2

What are the responsibilities of the police?

Answer 2

Prevent crime, maintain order, investigate and control crime, arrest violators

Question 3

What is meant by the charging decision made by prosecutors?

Answer 3

They decide who is being prosecuted

Question 4

What is the principle responsibility of the courts?

Answer 4

Insure that criminal procedure is followed and constitutional protections are in place

Question 5

What is meant by the crime control model?

Answer 5

Emphasizes the efficient arrest and convictions of offenders

Question 6

What is meant by evidence based practices in criminal justice?

Answer 6

Crime-fighting strategies that have been scientifically tested and are based on social science research

Question 7

What is multiculturalism?

Answer 7

Society containing diverse groups that maintain unique cultural identities while accepting and participation in the larger society’s legal and political systems

Question 8

What does a public order advocate believe?

Answer 8

Believe that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public, the interest of society should take precedence over individual rights

Question 9

What is meant by the consensus model of criminal justice?

Answer 9

Assumes justice system components work together to achieve justice

Question 10

What is a hate crime?

Answer 10

Any offense motivated by hatred against a victim because of his/her race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, handicap, or national orgin

Question 11

What are the different types of terrorism?

Answer 11

Domestic, International, Cyber

Question 12

What is terrorism?

Answer 12

A violent act or an act of danger to human life in violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state, committed to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.

Question 13

What is meant by a transnational offense?

Answer 13

Unlawful activity that occurs across national boundaries

Question 14

What is a white collar crime?

Answer 14

Financially motivated nonviolent crime committed by business and government professionals

Question 15

What are cyber crimes?

Answer 15

Crimes committed using computers and computer technology. Many are traditional offenses that use technology, rather than new forms of offending.

Question 16

What is the purpose of the Uniform Crime Reports?

Answer 16

To provide an annual summation of the incidence and rate of reported crimes throughout the United States

Question 17

What important statistics can be found in the Uniform Crime Reports?

Question 18

What is the purpose of the NCVS crime survey?

Answer 18

Used to determine the extent of criminal victimization - especially unreported victimization - in the United States

Question 19

What is the difference between a spree and a serial killer?

Answer 19

Serial killers murder three or more people on sperate occasions. Spree killers murder two or more people in a short time, often in multiple locations

Question 20

What is organized crime?

Answer 20

The unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized, disciplined association engaged in supplying illegal goods or services, including gambling, prostitution, loan-sharking, narcotics, and labor racketeering, and in other unlawful activities

Question 21

What are some of the dynamics involved in crimes against women and the elderly?

Answer 21

more likely to be injured, more likely to modify the way they live because of threat of crime

Question 22

How is heroin abused?

Question 23

What is the importance of Naloxone?

Answer 23

Can reverse an overdose from opioids - including heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioid medications

Question 24

Which of the following types of users risk becoming addicted to the drug?

Question 25

Could the misuse of prescription drugs such as oxycodone result in overdose?

Question 26

What are the three types of law American criminal law is based on?

Answer 26

Statutory (laws enacted by legislatures), Case law (results from court interpretation of statutory law), and Common Law (refers to customs, traditions and judicial decisions that guide courts in decision making)

Question 27

Can post-partum depression be used as a defense?

Answer 27

Yes

Question 28

What is needed to prove an insanity defense?

Answer 28

Any unsoundness of mind that prevents an individual from differentiating between right and wrong conduct, and understanding the consequences of their actions

Question 29

What is the difference between a felony and a misdemeanor?

Answer 29

Felony: serious crimes punishable by prison sentences of one year and up
Misdemeanors: minor crime punishable by up to one year in prison and/or a fine

Question 30

Where to statutory laws come from?

Answer 30

Legislatures and state statutory criminal code

Question 31

What is case law?

Answer 31

Law that comes from judicial case

Question 32

What elements do you need to charge Murder in the first degree?

Answer 32

Knowing that the murder is both willful and pre-meditated

Question 33

How is robbery different from theft?

Answer 33

Robbery: forcibly taking property, use of force or threat of force
Theft: taking property from person without force

Question 34

What is justifiable homicide?

Answer 34

Self defense

Question 35

What are the elements of the crime of manslaugther?

Answer 35

recklessly cause persons death, intent to cause SPI but causes death, heat of passion

Question 36

What are the elements of the crime of burglary?

Answer 36

unlawfully entering a structure to commit a crime

Question 37

What are the different types of thefts?

Question 38

What is meant by “mens rea?”

Answer 38

The state of mind that accompanies a criminal act. a.k.a a guilty mind

Question 39

What is “corpus delecti”

Answer 39

The facts that show a crime has occurred. means the body of crime