Midterms

Question 1

Crime

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Violation of the criminal laws of a state, the federal government, local jurisdiction, no legally acceptable justification or excuse.

Question 2

Individual Rights

Answer 2

Rights guaranteed to members of American society by the U.S constitution .

Question 3

Consensus model

Answer 3

Together harmoniously to achieve the society product we call justice.

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Conflict Model

Answer 4

Components function primary to serve their own interests .

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Criminal Justice

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Strictest scene, the criminal , the law of criminal procedure, array of procedures and activities having to do with the enforcement of this body of law.

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Individual Rights Advocates

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One who seeks to protect personal freedom within the process of criminal justice .

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Public Order Advocates

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Under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to to public safety, the interest of society should take precedence over individual rights

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Criminal Justice System

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Operating and administrative or technical support agencies that perform criminal justice function

Question 9

Due Process

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A right guaranteed by the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment. Legal proceeding according to the rules and forms established to protect individual rights.

Question 10

Arraignment

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First appearance, listens to the information against him as its read, and are asked to enter a plea

Question 11

Booking

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Pictures, fingerprints, personal information, details of the charges, and records are made.

Question 12

Preliminary Hearing

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Wheatear a crime is committed. Wheatear the crime occurred within the territorial jurisdiction of the court. Wheatear there are reasonable grounds to believe that the defendant committed a crime

Question 13

Indictment

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A written accusation submitted by a grand jury, alleging that a specified person has committed a specific offense.

Question 14

What starts the criminal justice process?

Answer 14

Arraignment

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Miranda Rights and where it came from?

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The police advise a person of his or her rights prior to questioning. Miranda V. Arizona

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Standing Mute

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Judge enters a pleas of not guilty on their behalf

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Fourth Amendment

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Declares that people must be safe on their homes and in their persons against unreasonable searches and seizures

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Fifth Amendment

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Enables due process

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Sixth Amendmant

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Every defendant has the right to trial by jury.

Question 20

Fourteenth Amendment

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Equal protection of the laws.

Question 21

Criminology

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Study of the causes and prevention of crime and the rehabilitation and punishment of offenders

Question 22

What is the UCR?

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Uniform Crime Reporting Program

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NCVS

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National Crime Victimization Survey- An annual survey of selected American households conducted by the Bureau of justice statistics to determine extent of criminal victim

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NIBRS

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An incident based reporting system that collects data on every single crime occurrence. National Incident Based Reporting System

Question 25

Murder

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The unlawful killing of a human being

Question 26

How common is murder?

Answer 26

16,272

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What weapon is used most often?

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Firearms

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Spree Killing

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Likings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders

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Mass Murderers

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Killing of four or more victims at one place

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Serial Killers

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Killing of victims in three or more seperate events

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Clarence Rate Murder

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A little over 60%

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Most reported crime

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Larceny- Theft

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Least reported crime

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Murder

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Motivation of Hate Crimes

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Race

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Who produces UCR/NIBRS

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Summary based

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Who produces NCVS

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Victim self reports

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White collar crime

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Committed by a person of respectability and high social status during their occupation . "Crime in the suites"

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UCR/NIBRS

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Murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson

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When did the UCR and NCVS start.

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1930

Question 40

Sarbates-Oxley Act

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To deter and punish corporate and accounting fraud and corruption and protect the interests of workers and shareholders

Question 41

Act national background check for buying firearms.

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Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

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Crime Typology

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A classification of crimes along a Particular dimension,

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Organized Crime

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The unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized disciplined asidicayion an gaged in supplying illegal goods or services

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Radical Criminology

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The h equal distribution of wealth power or other resources which adherents

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Conformists

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Accepts goals and means

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Innovators

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Accepts goals, and rejects means

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Ritualistic

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Reject success goals but perform daily task

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Retreatists

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Reject means and goals and drop out if society.

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Rebels

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To replace existing system of socially approved goals and means with some other system more to their liking

Question 50

Essay on Crimes and punishment

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Cesare Beccaria

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Interdisciplinary theory

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Theoretical viewpoints in an attempt to explain something such as crime

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Criminal behavior

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CLasical, biological, psychobiological, psychological, sociological, social process, conflict, emergent

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Psychological Profiling

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Categorize, understand, and predict the behavior of certain types of offenders based on behavioral clues they prove

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Classical school

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18th century Approach to crime causation and criminal responsibility that grew out of the enlightenment and that emphasized the role of free will and a reasonable punishment

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Life course theory

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Criminal behavior tends to follow an identifiable patterns throughout a persons life cycle

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Jurisprudence

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Philosophy of law, the science Nd study of the law

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Statutory law

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Written law, law on the books

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Criminal law

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Rule and regulations that defines and specify the nature of and punishments

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Rule of law

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The maxim

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Common law

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Law originating from usage and customs

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Substantive criminal law

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Describes what constitutes particular crimes

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Tort

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A wrongful act not involving a breach of contract

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Administrative law

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Body of regulation that control the activities of industry business individuals

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Precedent

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A legal principle

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Categories of crimes

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Felonies, misdemeanors, offenses, treason and espionage, and inchoate offenses

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Attendant circumstances

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Facts surrounding and event

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Four types of Defense

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Alibi, justification,excuses, and procedural.

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Justification

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Self defense, defense of others, home, necessity, consent, resisting unlawful arrest

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Excuse Defense

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Durees, age, mistake, involuntary intoxication, unconsciousness, provocation, insanity,diminished capcity, mental

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Procedural defenses

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Entrapment, double jeopardy, collateral, selective prosecution, denial of speedy trail, persecutional misconduct, police fraud

Question 71

Three elements of crimes

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Actus Reus, men's rea, a concurrence of the two