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Consensus Model

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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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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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Measure Crime With

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UCR, NIBRS, Victim Surveys, Self Report Surveys

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Sources of American Law

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Constitutional law, statutory law, administrative law, case law

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Purpose of criminal law

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Legal function and social function

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Social function

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Teaching and expressing public morality

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Felony

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One year or longer in prison serious crime

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Misdemeanors

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Less than one year in jail any crime not a felony

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Gross misdemeanors and petty misdemeanors

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Fewer than 30 days in jail

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Criminal act

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Actus reus

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mental state

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Mens rea

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First degree

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Premeditates and deliberate

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Second degree

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No premeditation

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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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Involuntary Manslaughter

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Carless acts but not intent to kill

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Excuse defenses

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Infancy, insanity, intoxication, mistake

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Justification Defense

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

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Insanity Tests

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

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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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Nightwatchmen

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Earliest form of the police, they were volantary

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Three Different eras

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Political, Reform, Community

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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

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Basic Requiments
Us citizen, no previous felonies, eligble for drivers license, 21 years old, meet weight and height requirments, background checks and tests, educational requirments
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6 types of cirme
Violent, property, high tech, public order, organized, white collar
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Department of Justice
Us marshals, FBI, DEA
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Official crime report
UCR
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UCR ran by
FBI
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Part one offenses are what type of crimes
Violent
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Oldest agency
US Marshal
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Act that violates criminal law and is punished by criminal sanction
Cirme
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Us has a ____ court system
Dual
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Three parts of the criminal justice system
Police, court, correction
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The moral principles that govern a person
Ethics
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Model emphasises individuals to be protected from gov power
Due process
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Model emphasizes riht of society to be protected
Crime control
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UCR is numbner of cirmes per ____ people
100,000
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An informal criminal jsutice process
Discrestion
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The discrtionary decision made by cirminal justice professionals are said to produce an ____ criminal jsutice process
Informal
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Two models defining criminal behavior are ____ and _____ model
Consensus and conflicr
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Judge made law
case
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Court decision that provides guidance in interpreting the law are called
President
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Guilty act and guilty ntent come together
Consesus
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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
Discretion
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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
Diversion
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Hypothesis that delinquents and criminals must be taught both the practical and emotional skills necesary to partake in illegal activity
Learning theory
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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
Rational choice theory
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Actus Reus
Guily act
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Beyond Reasonablie doubt
Degree of proof required to find the defendent in a criminal trial guilty of commiting the crime
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Nes rea
Mental state
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M’Naughten Rule
a common law test of criminal responsibility
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Degree of proof required to decide in favor of one sie or the other in a civil case
Preponderance of the evidence
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ALI/MPC
Insanity test

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