Midterm

Question 1

Autocracy

Answer 1

system of government where a single person has the total authority ex n. Korea

Question 2

Bureaucracy

Answer 2

 system of government where important decisions are made my state officials rather than elected representatives. ex the staff that runs city hall

Question 3

Case Attrition

Answer 3

 the failure of arrests to come to trial

Question 4

Cause Celebre

Answer 4

 a controversial issue that attracts a great deal of public attention
ex Reena Virk –> single driver issues

Question 5

Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Answer 5

1982. Guarantees fundamental freedoms, legal rights and equality rights
      Canada able to amend it’s own constitution. Charter stands above all law in Canada

Question 6

Crime control

Answer 6

methods taken to reduce crime in a society

Question 7

Democracy

Answer 7

a system of government where the population elects representatives, who make the laws and rules for the rest of society/

Question 8

Due Process

Answer 8

Fair treatment through the normal judicial system

Question 9

Duty of care

Answer 9

responsibility for media to report accurately, not sensationally. ex treating victims well

Question 10

Executive

Answer 10

AKA government. The management and governing of a country (PM, Cabinet and the federal departments they manage

Question 11

constitutional democracy

Answer 11

authority of the majority is limited by legal and institutional means.. so that the rights of individual minorities are respected

Question 12

Judiciary

Answer 12

series of independent courts

Interpret laws of the other two branches (prov and fed)

Question 13

Legislature

Answer 13

law making branch of government (senate, HOC)

Question 14

Mass Media

Answer 14

a means of communication that has the ability to reach large groups of people

Question 15

Monarchy

Answer 15

Seeing a King or Queen as the head of state. Canada = constitutional monarchy

Question 16

Moral Panic

Answer 16

A feeling of widespread fear among a large group of people that something evil threatens the well-being of society

Question 17

Oligarchy

Answer 17

small economically influential group of people. ex rich people making all the decisions for the larger group, even though they make up very few of them

Question 18

Parliamentary Government

Answer 18

Legislative, law making., part of the government. (Monarch, senate, HOC)

Question 19

political socialization

Answer 19

the process in which people acquire their political attitudes, beliefs opinions and behaviors. creates personal view on how governments and judicial system should work

Question 20

Public Opinion

Answer 20

the desires, wants and thinking of the majority of people in a group

Question 21

Public Opinion Poll

Answer 21

done in an effort to understand what the majority wants. It doesn’t reliably reflect the needs and wants of everyone