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1
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Constitution

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Base of every law

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2
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Three Branches of Gov.

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Legislative, Judicial, Executive

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3
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Legislative

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Elective representatives
Makes the laws
Congress

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4
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Executive

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President
Found at all levels
Police

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Judicial

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Federal 
Congress
State
State Leg
Local 
City or county
Councils or commissions 
Found at all levels
Courts 
Supreme Court
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6
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Social Contract

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An implied agreement between citizens and their government as a way of maintaining order

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7
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4th amendment

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Rights against unreasonable searches

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8
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6th amendment

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Right to speedy trial

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9
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8th amendment

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Right to reasonable bail

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10
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Equation

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of reported crimes/total U.S population x 100,000= rate per 100,000

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11
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Primary Sources of Crime Data

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UCR- Uniform Crime report
NIBRS- National Incident Based Reporting System
NCVS- National Crime Victimization Survey

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12
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Bill Of Rights how many amendments

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Has 10 Amendments

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13
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1st Amendment

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Freedom of speech

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Hierarchy Rule

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A way of counting crime reports so that the most serious crime is counted if more than one crime occurs in the incident used by UCR.

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15
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Part 1 Crimes

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Violent Crimes such as Murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault

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Part 2 Crimes

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Property crimes such as burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson

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17
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Social Justice

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What society thinks is right or wrong compared to the law

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18
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3 main components of Criminal Justice System

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1) Police
2) Courts
3) Corrections

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19
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Description of the general system

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C

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20
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Police officer apprehension

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Largest component

21
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Dark figure of Crimes

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Unreported Crimes

22
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Due process

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An individual person is more important than the many
More like an obstacle course
Protect the accused: venue, jurisdiction
Criminals can be rehabilitated and returned to the community

23
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Crime control

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Crime must be controlled
Protect society as a whole
Speed and efficiency
Citizens are more responsible than the accused

24
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UCR definitions of arsony and larceny

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Each is responsible for their own

25
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Main point of 5th amendment

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Gov. Can’t make you testify against yourself

26
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Proactive and Reactive policing

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Proactive shows police presence and engages the public to learn their concerns police, acting on their own initiative, [to] develop information about crime and strategies for its suppression”
Reactive policing can be defined as the police responding to specific requests from individuals or groups in the community which encompasses “immediate response to calls” and “follow-up investigations”.

27
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Sara Model

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Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment

28
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Who experimented with Classical Condition?

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Pavlov

29
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Who conducts the backbone

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Patrol-Police

30
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Malaprohibita

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Laws the government says are illegal

31
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Strict liability Crimes

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The exception to the rules that say there must be concurrence between the Actus Reus and mens rea.

32
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Minsrea

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Guilty mind

33
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corpisdelicta

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The body for the crime

34
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Felony

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1 year

35
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Misdemeanor

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Less than a year

36
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Common weapon used in the us

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Gun

37
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Largest segment

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1 million cops work at municipal

38
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Oldest federal law enforcement agency

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U.S. Marshalls Service Agency

39
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Duress

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Force someone to do something against their will

40
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Entrapment

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Induce a person to commit a crime that they would not have do so

41
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Police department rates faster

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Violent crimes

42
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Voluntary intoxication

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Rarely or never allowed as an excuse as it was that persons choice to be intoxicated

43
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Community policing

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A strategy that involves a working relationship between police and a community to deter and prevent crime

44
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Kansas City prevention experiment

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Conducted in 1972 and 1973

To show that crime could be curtailed and citizens would feel safer if there was more police visibility. It failed

45
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Mama in se

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Crimes that are immoral or wrong on their face.

Murder, rape and robbery

46
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Who founded the classical school of criminology

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Cesare Beccaria

47
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Deadly force is governed by

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Us Supreme Court

48
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Criminal wrong and civil wrong

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Act that is illegal or immoral-criminal

Tort civil

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