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MidTerm Flashcards

1
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Consensus Model

A

People agree on what is right and wrong

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Conflict model

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People have different views of right and wrong

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3
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Crime control Model

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Punishing criminals and protecting the public

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Due Process Model

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Protecting the accused and making sure they have thier rights

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5
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Measure Crime With

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UCR, NIBRS, Victim Surveys, Self Report Surveys

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6
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Sources of American Law

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Constitutional law, statutory law, administrative law, case law

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7
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Purpose of criminal law

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Legal function and social function

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8
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Social function

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Teaching and expressing public morality

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9
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Felony

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One year or longer in prison serious crime

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10
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Misdemeanors

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Less than one year in jail any crime not a felony

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11
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Gross misdemeanors and petty misdemeanors

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Fewer than 30 days in jail

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12
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Criminal act

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Actus reus

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13
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mental state

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Mens rea

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14
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First degree

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Premeditates and deliberate

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15
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Second degree

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No premeditation

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16
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Voluntary Manslaughter

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Intent to kill but malice is lacking fight with a friend ends with them dead

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17
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Involuntary Manslaughter

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Carless acts but not intent to kill

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18
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Excuse defenses

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Infancy, insanity, intoxication, mistake

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19
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Justification Defense

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Duress, justifiable use of force(self defense), necessity, entrapment

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20
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Insanity Tests

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M’ Naughten Rule, ALI/MPC, Irresistible Impulse Test

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21
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Resposibiiites of the police

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Prevent crimes, provide serves, preserve the peace, enforce laws

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22
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Nightwatchmen

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Earliest form of the police, they were volantary

23
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Three Different eras

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Political, Reform, Community

24
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Inteligence led policing

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Predictive policing that relies on data and inteligence and past crimes to predicts future crime

25
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Basic Requiments

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Us citizen, no previous felonies, eligble for drivers license, 21 years old, meet weight and height requirments, background checks and tests, educational requirments

26
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6 types of cirme

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Violent, property, high tech, public order, organized, white collar

27
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Department of Justice

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Us marshals, FBI, DEA

28
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Official crime report

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UCR

29
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UCR ran by

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FBI

30
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Part one offenses are what type of crimes

A

Violent

31
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Oldest agency

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US Marshal

32
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Act that violates criminal law and is punished by criminal sanction

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Cirme

33
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Us has a ____ court system

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Dual

34
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Three parts of the criminal justice system

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Police, court, correction

35
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The moral principles that govern a person

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Ethics

36
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Model emphasises individuals to be protected from gov power

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Due process

37
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Model emphasizes riht of society to be protected

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Crime control

38
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UCR is numbner of cirmes per ____ people

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100,000

39
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An informal criminal jsutice process

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Discrestion

40
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The discrtionary decision made by cirminal justice professionals are said to produce an ____ criminal jsutice process

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Informal

41
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Two models defining criminal behavior are ____ and _____ model

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Consensus and conflicr

42
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Judge made law

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case

43
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Court decision that provides guidance in interpreting the law are called

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President

44
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Guilty act and guilty ntent come together

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Consesus

45
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Ability of individuals in the criminal justice system to make operational decisions based on personal judgment instead of formal rules or officla info

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Discretion

46
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Effort to keep offenders out of prison or jail by diverting them into programs that promote treatmetn and rehabiiitation rather than punishment

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Diversion

47
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Hypothesis that delinquents and criminals must be taught both the practical and emotional skills necesary to partake in illegal activity

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Learning theory

48
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School of criminaology that holds that wrongdoers act as if they weigh the possible benifits of criminal or delinqent activityf against the expected costs of being apprehended

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Rational choice theory

49
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Actus Reus

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Guily act

50
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Beyond Reasonablie doubt

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Degree of proof required to find the defendent in a criminal trial guilty of commiting the crime

51
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Nes rea

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Mental state

52
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M’Naughten Rule

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a common law test of criminal responsibility

53
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Degree of proof required to decide in favor of one sie or the other in a civil case

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Preponderance of the evidence

54
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ALI/MPC

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Insanity test

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