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The Criminal Justice System Flashcards

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What is Actus Reus?

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  • A guilty act
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What is Mens Rea?

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  • A guilty mind
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What are the three tyoes of offence?

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  1. Summary offences
  2. Either-way offences
  3. indictable offences
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Where are summary offences heard?

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  • Magistrates court
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Where are either-way offences heard?

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  • Magistrates court
  • Crown court
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Where are indictable offences heard?

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  • Crown court
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What are the crime trends in the Uk?

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  • Shoplifting rates on the rise
  • Decrease in domestic abuse
  • Increase in sexual assault
  • Increase in robberies with a knife/sharp instrument
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What are the different institutions?

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  • The police
  • The crown prosecution service
  • HM courts and tribunals service
  • The Home Office
  • The Ministry of Justice
  • The Attorney General
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What is the role of the police?

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  • Responsible for investigating crime, collecting evidence and arresting or detaining suspected offenders
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What is the role of the crown prosecution service?

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  • prosecutes criminal cases
  • independent of police and government
  • overseen by his majesty’s crown prosecution service inspectorate
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What is the role of the Her Majesty’s courts and tribunals service?

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  • responsible for the administration of courts and tribunals in England and Wales
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What are his majesty’s prison and probation service?

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  • Responsible for carrying out sentences given by the courts, in custody and in the community and rehabilitation through education and employment
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What is the role of the home office?

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  • The lead government department for crime and the police, and other matters
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What is the role of the Ministry of Justice?

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  • Responsible for the courts, prisons, probation services and attendance centres
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What is the role of the Attorney General?

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  • The chief legal adviser to the Government (superintends the CPS and Serious Fraud Office)
  • Responsible for the Government Legal Department (supported by the solicitor general)
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What are the theories of criminal justice?

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  • Due process model
  • Crime control model
  • Rehabilitation model
  • Restorative jusice model
  • Bureaucratic module
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What is the due process model?

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  • Aims for a just process through fairness and rules to protect the accused
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What is the crime control model?

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  • Aims primarily for controlling crime
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What is the rehabilitation model?

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  • Aims for rehabilitation of the offender
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What is the restorative justice model?

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  • Aim is that the offender recognizes their responsibility and makes amends to the victim
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What is the Bureaucratic module?

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  • Aims for the efficient management of the case and the criminal in the system
22
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What are the stages of a criminal case?

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  1. Pre-trial
  2. The trial
  3. After the trial
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What happens at the pre-trial stage?

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  • Reporting a crime
  • Investigation (police, other investigative body)
  • Charging (police, CPS)
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What happens at a trial?

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  • The courts and the plea
  • The verdict (beyond a reasonable doubt)
  • Sentencing
  • Appeals (against the verdict or sentence)
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What happens after the trial?

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  • Prison
  • Rehabilitation
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What happens during an investigation?

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  • Police powers are governed by the police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and codes of practice
  • Main powers (stop and search, arrest and detain, to question, to enter and search premises)
27
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What are the two types of bail?

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  1. Unconditional
  2. Conditional
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What are the two tests for the decision to prosecute set out by the Crown Prosecution Service?

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  1. Is there sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction?
  2. Is prosecution in the public interest?
29
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What are the statistics relating to ethnicity and justice?

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  • Black people are more likely to be stopped and searched in comparison to white people
  • Black people are more likely to be arrested in comparison to white people
30
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What is a guilty plea?

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  • where the defendant pleads guilt, the only function for the court is to sentence
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What is a non-guilty plea?

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  • where the defendant pleads not guilty, the court must hear evidence, reaching findings, determine guilt and sentence, if guilty
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What are the principles and purposes of sentencing?

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  • Punishment of the offender
  • Reduction of crime
  • Reform and rehabilitation of offenders
  • Protection of the public
  • Making of reparation to persons affected
33
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What is the principle of the youth justice system?

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  • Prevent offending or reoffending by persons under 18
  • Welfare of the offender
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What are the causes of backlog in the crown court?

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  • High number of ‘ineffective trials’ (listed trials that do not go ahead on the day scheduled
  • Number of criminal law barristers and criminal law duty solicitors decreasing
  • Hearings are taking longer due to the higher proportion of complex cases and more cases where the defendant pleads not guilty
  • Measures taken by Government are not effectively bringing the number of outstanding cases down
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What is the impact of the backlog in the Crown Court?

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  • Deterioration of victims’ mental wellbeing
  • Defendants waiting a long time for trial
  • Contributing to acute prison population pressures (the number of people in prison on remand, awaiting a trial or sentencing is at its highest level for at least 50 years)

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