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Criminal Justice voc
Vocabulary words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Psychosis | A form of mental illness in which sufferers are said to be out of touch with reality. |
| Post Modern Criminology | A branch of Criminology that developed after World War II and that builds on the tenets of social thought. |
| Psychological Profiling | The attempt to categorize, understand, and predict the behavior of certain types of offenders based on behavioral clues they provide. |
| Psychopathology | The study of pathological mental conditions – that is, mental illness. |
| Anomie | is a socially pervasive condition of normalessness. |
| Psychopathology | the study of pathological mental conditions - that is, mental illness. |
| theory | a set of interrelated propositions that attempt to describe, explain, predict and ultimately control some class of events. |
| Deviance | A violation of social norms defining appropriate or proper behavior under a particular set of circumstances is known as |
| Hypothesis | An explanation that accounts for a set of facts that can be tested by further investigation is known as |
| Lombroso | is known as the father of modern criminology |
| Conformist | Which of Merton's categories would a law-abiding citizen fall into? |
| atavism | a condition characterized by the existence of features thought to be common in earlier stages of human evolution |
| Classical School | The ________________ is an eighteenth-century approach to crime causation and criminal responsibility that emphasizes free will and reasonable punishments. |
| Psychological School | A perspective on criminological thought that views offensive and deviant behavior as the product of dysfunctional personality. |
| Chicago School | A sociological approach that emphasizes demographics and geographics and that sees the social disorganization that characterizes delinquency areas as a major cause of criminality and victimization. |
| Cesare Beccaria | Who wrote Essays on Crime and Punishment? |
| Social Process Theory | The ___________ is a perspective on criminological thought that highlights the process of interaction between individuals and society. |
| Subculture of violence | Marvin Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti are often associated with which of the following terms? |
| William Sheldon | used somatotyping to explain juvenile criminal behavior. |
| 1930 | The United States Congress authorized the attorney general to gather and publish the Uniform Crime Reports in: |
| True | Most stalking laws require that the perpetrator make a credible threat of violence against the victim or members of the victim's immediate family. |
| National Crime Victimization Survey of the Bureau of Justice Statistics | Nationally, crime statistics come from two major sources: the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) and |
| Smallest | Murder numerically is the _________ of Part I Offenses. |
| False | Murders are usually committed by strangers. |
| Burglary | All of the following are Part I violent crime offenses except: |
| Robbery | All of the following are Part I property crime offenses except: |
| Robbery | The unlawful taking or attempted taking of property by force or threat |
| Larceny | The unlawful taking or attempted taking of the property of another |
| Assault | Intentional and wrongful physical contact with a person, without his or her consent |
| Burglary | The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony |
| False | The PERF organization relies on FBI statistics to define strategies to fight crime nationwide. |
| Burglary | The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony is defined as: |
| Arson | The burning or attempted burning of property with or without intent to defraud is called: |
| Racial | About fifty percent of hate crimes are motivated by ________ bias. |
| larceny | A theft of computer equipment would be classified as: |
| Non-negligent manslaughter | Which of the following would be included in UCR/NIBRS murder statistics? |
| True | The clearance rate compares the number of crimes reported or discovered to the number of crimes solved through arrest or other means (such as the death of the suspect). |
| robbery | Each of the following offenses falls under the category of larceny except for: |
| simple assault | Which of the following is a Part II offense? |
| White Collar Criminals | The human perpetrators of corporate crime are business executives that are also known as: |
| Crimes perpetuated through the use of computer technology | Cybercrime is also known as: |
| True | Firearms are the weapon used most often to commit murder. |
| The Civil Rights movement | Which of the following had a profound effect on individual rights by the 1980s? |
| Consensus Model | Which model below best assumes that the system’s components work together harmoniously to achieve justice. |
| False | The Corrections stage begins once a defendant has been convicted, but before sentencing. |
| Preliminary Hearing | Which step in the pretrial activities does a judicial officer determine if a crime has been committed? |
| Preliminary Hearing | A proceeding before a judicial officer in which it must be shown that: a crime was committed, the crime occurred within the jurisdiction of the court, and there are reasonable grounds to believe that the defendant did the crime. |
| Indictment | A formal written accusation submitted to the court by a grand jury alleging that a specified person has committed a specified offense, usually a felony. |
| Probable Cause | A set of facts and circumstances that would induce a reasonably intelligent and prudent person to believe that a specified person has committed a specified crime. |
| Information | A formal written accusation submitted to a court by a prosecutor alleging that a specified person has committed a specified offense |
| Multiculturalism | According to the author Race and Ethnicity are buzz words that people use when discussing: |
| Criminology | the scientific study of the causes and prevention of crime and the rehabilitation and punishment of offenders |
| Sixth | Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is concerned with the defendant’s right to a jury trial |
| Trial | A(n)________ is defined as criminal proceedings, the examination in court of the issues of fact and relevant law in a case for the purpose of convicting or acquitting the defendant. |
| True | The Conflict Model assumes that the criminal justice system’s components function primarily to serve their own interests. |
| Evidence Based Practice | refers to crime fighting strategies that have been scientifically tested and are based on social science research |
| Booking | stage in the criminal justice process involves taking pictures and fingerprints of a suspect |
| Investigation | The first step in the Criminal Justice process begins with the: |
| True | The Crime-controlled model is defined as a criminal justice perspective that emphasizes the efficient arrest and conviction of criminal offenders. |
| preliminary hearing | is used to decide whether there are reasonable grounds to believe the defendant committed the crime. |
| Social Justice | An ideal that embraces all aspects of civilized life and that is linked to fundamental notions of fairness and to cultural beliefs about right and wrong is known as |
| False | Gideon v. Wainwright is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case ensuring the defendant’s right to a jury trial. |
| the grand jury | Who returns an indictment? |
| diversity | Multiculturalism is often used in conjunction with what other term? |
| Crime Control Model | A criminal justice perspective model that emphasizes the efficient arrest and conviction of criminal offenders is known as: |
| False | Due Process is a right guaranteed only found in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |
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