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CRJ 101 Chapter 1-5 Flashcards

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Conflict Model

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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

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Crime control

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emphasizes the efficient arrest and conviction of the criminal offender

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Criminal Justices

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Society’s response to crime.Study of the system

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“Crime in the streets”

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Decriminalization

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Formal social control

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

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Indictment

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

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Jail

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Mala in se

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

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Misdemeanor

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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.

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Probation

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

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Prosecution

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Probable cause

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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

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Property crime

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robbing your house or dorm ,bookbag

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Restorative justice

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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

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Consensus model

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

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Due process Perspective

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emphasize individual rights at all stage of justice system processing

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“Crime in the suites”

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Criminology

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Study of criminal behavior

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Legalization

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Informal social control

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

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Grand jury

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Prison

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Mala prohibita

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Felony

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

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Parole

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Conditional release of an inmate from incarceration

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Defense

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Reasonable suspicion

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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

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Violent crime

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Castle doctrine

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Burglary

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Crime rate

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Forcible Rape

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unlawful sexual intercourse achieved though force and without consent

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Index crime - part 2

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Uniform crime report (UCR)

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based of official police statistics

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Crime clock

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How much a crime happens in a length of time

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Dark figure of crime

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unreported crime

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Index crime - Part 1

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39
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Robbery

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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

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Victimization surveys

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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

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Actus rea

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

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Beyond a reasonable doubt

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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.

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case law

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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

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criminal law

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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

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Incapacitation

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

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Retribution

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Specific deterrence

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Restitution

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stare decisis

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Mens Rea

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51
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By a preponderance of the evidence

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Common law

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civil law

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The form of the law that governs relationships between parties

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Rehabilitation

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

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Deterrence

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General deterrence

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Battered women syndrome

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58
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Distinguish the precedent

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Proactive policing

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patrol

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private policing

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grass eaters

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rotten apples

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Mandatory arrest

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Zero tolerance policing

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community policing

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compstat

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Reactive policing

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police subculture

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racial profiling

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71
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Meat eaters

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Routine activities theory

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Victimless prosecution

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Broken window theory

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75
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Discretion

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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.

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Intelligence-led policing

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