What is the fourth amendment?
Search and Seizure
Excessive Bail
Due Process
Unlawful Confession
What is the eighth amendment?
Unfair Confessions
What is the 14th amendment?
Search and seizure
Due process
Unfair confessions
What is the 5th amendment?
Excessive bail
Unlawful confession
What is the 6th amendment
Speedy and public trial
Stare decisis means to stand by by what has been decided.
Two examples of past common law
Felonies
Eye for an Eye
Correctional rehabilitation
10 commandments
What is justice?
Violent Crimes
Punishment with a fair trial
Using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals
Illegal activity, relating to crime
True or false: Mala in se are violent crimes
True or false: Criminal is defined as involving illegal activity, relating to crime, relating to laws that describe scrimes rather than to laws about a person's right; morally wrong.
What is ex post facto?
Punishment without a fair trial
Law cannot be made and then applied to a previous crime
Criminal justice agencies should limit their involvement with the criminal defendants.
Which of these is not a classification of crime?
Misdemeanors
Mala in se
Violations (infractions)
Which of these is not a perspective on justice?
Crime Control Perspective
Intervention persepctive
Due process perspective
Rehabilitation perspective
Equal justice perspective
Restorative justice perspective
What is the crime control perspective?
Provide fair and equal treatment for the accused
Deter crime through the application of punishment
Offenders should be reintegrated back into society
Care for people who can not mange themselves
What is rehabilitation perspective?
Criminal justice systems should limit their involvement with the criminal defendants.
Equal treatment for equal crimes
Care for people who cannot manage themselves.
What is restorative justice perspective?
Offenders should be reintegrated back into society.
Provide fair and equatable treatment for the accused.
What is equal justice perspective?
Care for people who cannot manage themselves
Criminal justice agencies should limit their involvement with the criminal defendants
What is nonintervention perspective?
Deter crime through the application of punishment.
Equal treatment for equal crimes.
What is due process perspective?
Criminal justice agencies should should limit their involvement with the criminal defendants.
Provide fair and equatable treatment for the accused
Which of the following things must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt in order to convict someone.
Actus Rea
Durham Rule
Mens Rea
M' Naghten Rule
Which of these is not one of the seven things the criminal justice system can do?
Protect the public
Brings guilty to justice
Makes laws
Maintains order
Bills of attainder is crimes that have been prohibited by law
What is mala prohibitum?
Unlawful acts
Laws that were made due to recent crime
Crimes that have been prohibited by law
The unlawful act of committing a crime
Which of these is not a principle component of the criminal justice system?
Juvenile detention centers
Law enforcement
Courts
Correctional
Which one of these is not one of the five pleas of insanity?
Drug Influence
Insanity Defense Reform Act
Substantial Capacity Test
Irresistible Impulse
What is the Durham rule?
An accused person is not criminally responsible if his/her unlawful act was the product of mental disability or defect.
Insanity should be defined as a lack of substantial capacity ( the mental capacity needed to understand the wrong doing of an act) to control one's behavior.
The person committing the act did not know that their actions were illegal but, because of mental impairment, he/she could not control their behavior.
The person committing the act must not be able to tell the nature and quality of the act or could not tell what they were doing was wrong.
What is irresistible impulse?
An accused person can't be judged not guilty by reason of insanity if "the defendant" was unable to appreciate the quality or wrongfulness of the act due to mental disease.
What is the M' Naghten Rule?
What is the insanity defense reform act?
What is the substantial capacity test?
Insanity should be defined as a lack of substantial capacity (the mental capacity needed to understand the wrong doing of an act) to control one's behavior.
Which one of these is not a main view in the criminal justice system?
Interactionist View
Conflict View
Protection View
Consensus View
What is consensus view?
Laws are designed by those in power to do what they want and think is best for society
Laws are designed by those in power to do what they want and think is best for society focused solely on moral crimes
If most people benefit from the particular law, the law should be made. Majority supports the belief
What is conflict view?
Laws are designed by those in power to do what they want and think is best for society, based solely on moral crimes
If most people benefit from the particular law, the law should be made. Majority supports the belief.
What is interactionist view?
Laws are designed by those in power to do what they want and think is best for society focused solely on moral crimes.
True or false society defines crime
Which of these is not one of the 3 main ways crime is measured?
Uniform Crime Report
Police Reports
National Crime Victimization survey
Self report surveys
True or false: Violent crimes have increased since 1990.
What is the UCR?
Official crime data measurement
Telephone survey of a large sample of households/individuals
Surveys/ interviews that ask respondents to reveal their criminal behavior
What is the NCVS?
What is the self report surveys?
True or False: Males are arrested more than females
True or false: Police are not more likely to arrest minority suspects?
True or false: Young people are arrested at much higher rates than older people?
True or False: Women are more likely for violent crimes, such as robbery and physical assault.
True or false: Females are more likely for sexual assault.
True or false: Younger people are less vulnerable to be victims of crime.
African Americans are _______ times more likely to be murdered than African American females.
1 to 2
2 to 3
4 to 5
3 to 4
