Module 1

Question 1

What is Crime?

Answer 1

acts or omissions that cause public harm, are forbidden by the law and are punishable by the law.

Question 2

What are the formal sources of crime Knowledge?

Answer 2

official statistics

research studies

Question 3

What are the informal sources of crime knowledge?

Answer 3

personal experience
experience of relatives and friends
the media

Question 4

What is the key function of the criminal Justice System?

Answer 4

To bring offenders before courts for adjudication then upon guilt, sentence the offender

Question 5

What are the different aims in sentencing?

Answer 5

Retribution
Restitution 
Deterrence
Incapacitation
Rehabilitation

Question 6

What is Retribution?

Answer 6

an approximate form of proportional harm as payback

Question 7

What is Restitution?

Answer 7

compensation to the victim or society

Question 8

What is Deterrence?

Answer 8

discourage members of society from committing criminal acts out of fear of punishment

Question 9

What is Incapacitation?

Answer 9

restricts potential offenders access to victims, prevent the individual from committing future crimes because he is removed from society and locked up or restrained somehow.

Question 10

What is Specific deterrence?

Answer 10

For the individual who commit crime

Question 11

What is General Deterrence?

Answer 11

For society

Question 12

What is Rehabilitation?

Answer 12

Behavioral changes through therapeutic programs

Question 13

The 3 main components of the Criminal Justice System?

Answer 13

Policing
Courts
Corrections

Question 14

Socail Contract Theory

Answer 14

argues that we all have a strong sense of need for personal freedom

Question 15

Where does the Criminal Justice Systems Legitimacy come from?

Answer 15

power is legitimized because majority of citizens approve of it and are prepared to accept some lawful restrictions on their freedom in return for social stability and regulation