Test 1 Flashcards
Constitution
Base of every law
Three Branches of Gov.
Legislative, Judicial, Executive
Legislative
Elective representatives
Makes the laws
Congress
Executive
President
Found at all levels
Police
Judicial
Federal Congress State State Leg Local City or county Councils or commissions Found at all levels Courts Supreme Court
Social Contract
An implied agreement between citizens and their government as a way of maintaining order
4th amendment
Rights against unreasonable searches
6th amendment
Right to speedy trial
8th amendment
Right to reasonable bail
Equation
of reported crimes/total U.S population x 100,000= rate per 100,000
Primary Sources of Crime Data
UCR- Uniform Crime report
NIBRS- National Incident Based Reporting System
NCVS- National Crime Victimization Survey
Bill Of Rights how many amendments
Has 10 Amendments
1st Amendment
Freedom of speech
Hierarchy Rule
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.
Part 1 Crimes
Violent Crimes such as Murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault
Part 2 Crimes
Property crimes such as burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson
Social Justice
What society thinks is right or wrong compared to the law
3 main components of Criminal Justice System
1) Police
2) Courts
3) Corrections
Description of the general system
C
Police officer apprehension
Largest component
Dark figure of Crimes
Unreported Crimes
Due process
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
Crime control
Crime must be controlled
Protect society as a whole
Speed and efficiency
Citizens are more responsible than the accused
UCR definitions of arsony and larceny
Each is responsible for their own
Main point of 5th amendment
Gov. Can’t make you testify against yourself
Proactive and Reactive policing
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”.
Sara Model
Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment
Who experimented with Classical Condition?
Pavlov
Who conducts the backbone
Patrol-Police
Malaprohibita
Laws the government says are illegal
Strict liability Crimes
The exception to the rules that say there must be concurrence between the Actus Reus and mens rea.
Minsrea
Guilty mind
corpisdelicta
The body for the crime
Felony
1 year
Misdemeanor
Less than a year
Common weapon used in the us
Gun
Largest segment
1 million cops work at municipal
Oldest federal law enforcement agency
U.S. Marshalls Service Agency
Duress
Force someone to do something against their will
Entrapment
Induce a person to commit a crime that they would not have do so
Police department rates faster
Violent crimes
Voluntary intoxication
Rarely or never allowed as an excuse as it was that persons choice to be intoxicated
Community policing
A strategy that involves a working relationship between police and a community to deter and prevent crime
Kansas City prevention experiment
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
Mama in se
Crimes that are immoral or wrong on their face.
Murder, rape and robbery
Who founded the classical school of criminology
Cesare Beccaria
Deadly force is governed by
Us Supreme Court
Criminal wrong and civil wrong
Act that is illegal or immoral-criminal
Tort civil
