CRJ 101 Chapter 1-5

Question 1

Conflict Model

Answer 1

the criminal law expresses the values of the ruling class in a society Policies that protect white-collar criminals from formal punishment would support which of the following theories

Question 2

Crime control

Answer 2

emphasizes the efficient arrest and conviction of the criminal offender

Question 3

Criminal Justices

Answer 3

Society’s response to crime.Study of the system

Question 4

“Crime in the streets”

Question 5

Decriminalization

Question 6

Formal social control

Answer 6

would be talking to someone’s boss to get them written up or in trouble “snitching” “police”

Question 7

Indictment

Answer 7

A document containing the charges against accused on which he is arraigned at the commencement of a trial on indictment.

Question 8

Jail

Question 9

Mala in se

Answer 9

These are crimes which are wrong from their nature–such as murder, theft, rape, etc.

Question 10

Misdemeanor

Answer 10

A crime considered less serious than a felony. Usually tried in the lowest local courts and punishable by no more than one year in jail.

Question 11

Probation

Answer 11

a sentence of time without being in jail while still being watched/ monitored

Question 12

Prosecution

Question 13

Probable cause

Answer 13

askes do the facts that circumstance lead a reasonable person to be believe that the person in question committed the crime this level of belief allows for searches and seizure and arrests

Question 14

Property crime

Answer 14

robbing your house or dorm ,bookbag

Question 15

Restorative justice

Answer 15

restorative justice is the form where the victim and the offender try and patch the harm that was caused when the crime was committed against the victim and the community

Question 16

Consensus model

Answer 16

Which model assumes that the system’s subcomponents work together harmoniously to achieve the social product we call justice?

Question 17

Due process Perspective

Answer 17

emphasize individual rights at all stage of justice system processing

Question 18

“Crime in the suites”

Question 19

Criminology

Answer 19

Study of criminal behavior

Question 20

Legalization

Question 21

Informal social control

Answer 21

what we do socially “ if it is socially okay”
Example: its not ok to make a racist joke because someone get offended

Question 22

Grand jury

Question 23

Prison

Question 24

Mala prohibita

Question 25

Felony

Answer 25

A serious crime, generally one punishable by death or by incarceration in a state or federal prison facility as opposed to a jail

Question 26

Parole

Answer 26

Conditional release of an inmate from incarceration

Question 27

Defense

Question 28

Reasonable suspicion

Answer 28

General and reasonable BELIEF that some type of criminal activity is taking place, or is about to take place. You are not exactly sure what is going on, but you are going to investigate further. Reasonable suspicion amounts to GENERALITIES, SHORT OF PROBABLE CAUSE, BUT MORE THAN A HUNCH

Question 29

Violent crime

Question 30

Castle doctrine

Question 31

Burglary

Question 32

Crime rate

Question 33

Forcible Rape

Answer 33

unlawful sexual intercourse achieved though force and without consent

Question 34

Index crime - part 2

Question 35

Uniform crime report (UCR)

Answer 35

based of official police statistics

Question 36

Crime clock

Answer 36

How much a crime happens in a length of time

Question 37

Dark figure of crime

Answer 37

unreported crime

Question 38

Index crime - Part 1

Question 39

Robbery

Answer 39

A person is guilty of robbery is he steals and immediately before or at the time of doing so and in order to do so, he forces on any person, or puts, or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force

Question 40

Victimization surveys

Answer 40

Survey of representative sample of American households + group quarters -Ask if they have been victimized by crime -Excludes person in military, prisons, jails, foreign visitors, and homeless

Question 41

Actus rea

Answer 41

the physical action that a person must take in order to be responsible for a criminal offense

Question 42

Beyond a reasonable doubt

Answer 42

proof beyond a reasonable doubt, therefore, is proof of such a convincing character that you would be willing to rely and act upon it without hesitation in the most important of your own affairs. however, it does not mean an absolute certainty.

Question 43

case law

Answer 43

laws created and developed by judges in superior courts to resolve legal disputes they are only able to make case law to the extent necessary to resolve a legal dispute

Question 44

criminal law

Answer 44

The body of rules and regulations that defines and specifies punishments for offenses of a public nature or for wrongs committed against the state or society. Also called penal law

Question 45

Incapacitation

Answer 45

the use of a criminal sanction to physically prevent the commission of a crime by an offender; putting offenders in prison

Question 46

Retribution

Question 47

Specific deterrence

Question 48

Restitution

Question 49

stare decisis

Question 50

Mens Rea

Question 51

By a preponderance of the evidence

Question 52

Common law

Question 53

civil law

Answer 53

The form of the law that governs relationships between parties

Question 54

Rehabilitation

Answer 54

is the process of restoring the individual to the fullest physical, mental social , vocational and economic capacity of which he is capable.

Question 55

Deterrence

Question 56

General deterrence

Question 57

Battered women syndrome

Question 58

Distinguish the precedent

Question 59

Proactive policing

Question 60

patrol

Question 61

private policing

Question 62

grass eaters

Question 63

rotten apples

Question 64

Mandatory arrest

Question 65

Zero tolerance policing

Question 66

community policing

Question 67

compstat

Question 68

Reactive policing

Question 69

police subculture

Question 70

racial profiling

Question 71

Meat eaters

Question 72

Routine activities theory

Question 73

Victimless prosecution

Question 74

Broken window theory

Question 75

Discretion

Answer 75

But police decisions happen at the beginning of the criminal justice process, and without the decisions, they make to begin the process, prosecutors and other criminal justice officials would never have the opportunity to decide the fate of criminal suspects. - If an individual is given a warning, they do not proceed to the next stages of the CJ process where prosecutors exercise discretion.

Question 76

Intelligence-led policing