CHAPTER FOUR:
1. Define the following:
Quality of life offenses: A minor violation of the law
(sometimes called a petty crime) that demoralizes community
residents and business people. Usually involve acts that create
physical disorder ex: excessive nois
CHAPTER THREE:
1. Define the following:
Rule of law: Supremacy of Law The maxim that an orderly society must
be governed by established principles and known codes that are applied
uniformly and fairly to all of its members
Substantive criminal law: Its u
CHAPTER FIVE:
1. Define the following:
Landmark case: A precedent-setting court decision that procedures
substantial changes both in the understanding of the requirements of due
process and in the practical day-to-day operations of the CJ system.
Exclus
CHAPTER SEVEN:
1. Define the following:
Original jurisdiction: The lawful authority of a court to hear or to
act on a case from its beginning and to pass judgment on the law and
the facts. The authority may be over a specific geographic area or
over part
CHAPTER EIGHT:
1. Define the following:
Courtroom work group: The professional courtroom actors,
including judges, prosecutors, defense attorney, public
defenders, and others who earn a living serving the court.
Prosecutorial discretion: The decision ma
Chapter 1: What is Criminal Justice
Individual Rights vs. Public Order
60s & 70s
o Civil Rights Movement
Warren Court
o Societies View of Criminals?
o Purpose of Punishment?
o Intermediate Sentences
Promoted Rehab of Criminals
Unfair because same crime
Chapter 2: The Crime Picture
Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
Created by the FBI with data compiled by law enforcement
agencies nationwide.
Part 1 Crimes:
o (4) Crimes against PERSON
o (4) Crimes against PROPERTY
Part 1 PERSON:
1) Criminal Homicide
2) Forcibl
Chapter 3: Criminal Law
Nature and Purpose
What is a law
Statutory Law
Law of the Land
Written, Codified (penal code)
Case Law
Results from judicial decision
Precedents
Common Law
Unwritten historical precedents
Social customs, norms
Rule of Law
Chapter 4: Policing: Purpose & Organization
The
Police Mission
Enforce Law
Apprehend Offenders
Prevent Crime
Preserve Domestic Peace
Provide Community w/ needed Enforcement Related Services
Sir Robert Peel
Reduce Crime and Disorder.
Preventing Crime
Cri
Chapter 5: Policing: Legal Aspects
Warren Court
1953-1969
Ideology:
Better for a few guilty to go free so that the rights of the majority of
Americans would be protected.
Some Famous Criminal Procedure Decisions:
Mapp, Brady, Gideon, and Miranda
Fourth Am
Chapter 6: Policing: Issues and Challenges
Police Personality & Culture
Police Personality?
Sources?
(1) Already Exists
(2) Socialization
Formal v. Informal
By the book v. On the job training
Corruption & Integrity
Occupational Deviance v. Abuse of Aut
Chapter 6: Policing: Issues and Challenges
Police Personality & Culture
Police Personality?
Sources?
(1) Already Exists
(2)
Socialization
Formal v. Informal
By the book v. On the job training
Corruption & Integrity
Occupational Deviance v. Abuse of Au
CHAPTER SIX:
1. Define the following:
Police subculture: A particular set of values, beliefs, and acceptable forms
of behavior characteristics of American police with which the police
profession strives to imbue new recruits. Socialization into the polic
CHAPTER TWO:
1. Define the following:
NIBRS: An incident based reporting system that collects detailed data on
every single crime occurrence. NIBRS data are replacing the kinds of
summary data that have traditionally been provided by the FBIs Uniform
Cri
CHAPTER ONE:
1. Define the following terms:
Individual-rights advocate: One who seeks to protect personal freedoms
within the process of CJ.
Public-order advocate: One who believes that under certain circumstances
involving a criminal threat to public s
Remember Staff Hierarchy
o Administrative staff
o Program staff
o Custodial staff
o Service and maintenance system
o Volunteers
Legitimate power
Base power
Reward power
Expert power
Referent power
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Intro to Criminal Justice Midterm Review
1. Justice
a. The principle of fairness; the ideal of moral equity
b. Social justice: An ideal that embraces all aspects of civilized life; linked to notions of
fairness and to cultural beliefs about right and wron
PART I CRIME IN AMERICA
Chapter 1: What is Criminal Justice?
Milestones in Crime History:
o 1850-1880 A crime epidemic spurred by social upheaval brought on by largescale immigration and the Civil War
o 1920-1933 Prohibition spurs the growth of organized
CCJ 1020: Introduction to the Criminal Justice System
M. Lorenzo
Professor
Review Sheet for Examination # 3
Adversarial system
Dual court system
Jurisdiction
Dispute resolution centers
Perjury
Defense attorney
Prosecutor
Sequestered jury
Courtroom work gr
CCJ 1020: Introduction to Criminal Justice
Prof. Lorenzo
Review # 4
Death Row inmates
Jails
Prisons
Rehabilitation
Prison and privileges
Maximum, medium, minimum security prisons
Prison values and prisonization process
Women and prison
Sexual assault in p
Test Review for chapter 6
1. Jails
a. Locally operated correctional facilities that confine people before
or after conviction
b. Inmates sentenced to jail usually have a sentence of one year or
less (misdemeanors)
i. Pretrial detainees can remain in jail
Test Review Chapter 10
1. Prisons are Total Institutions
a. A place where the same people work, play, eat, sleep, and
recreate together on a continuous basis (inmates and officers)
b. The term was developed by the sociologist Erving Goffman to
describe pr
The last review to CCJ 1020
Prisons: a state or federal confinement facility that has custodial
authority over adults sentenced to confinement
Justice Model: a contemporary model of imprisonment based on
principle of just deserts
Jails: locally operated s
Test Review Chapter 3
1. Sentencing: Judicial process resulting in the imposition of sanctions on a convicted
offender (usually a judge, sometimes a jury).
2. Sentence: The penalty a court imposes on a person convicted of a crime.
3. Social Order - the or
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