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Introduction to crim
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Procedural Fairness | Processes by which decisions that feel fair are made is a vitual component of our American justice system |
| Procedural justice | crucial to effective criminal justice practices and helps to ensure the legitimacy of justice organizations and their acceptance by the people they serve |
| Criminal activity | been with us since the dawn of history |
| individual rights | accompanied by a dramatic increase in reported criminal activity |
| social disorganization | increased criminality |
| New York times summarizes the situation | well saying "the internet virtual superways have supplanted brick and mortar streets |
| Individual rights versus public order | draws on historical developments that shaped our legal system and our understanding of crime and justice |
| civil rights | led to recognition of fundamental personal rights that previously been denied illegally to many people on the bias of race,ethnicity,gender sex differences or disabilities |
| Individual rights advocate | those who seek to protect personal freedoms and civil rights within society and especially within the criminal justice process |
| social order | Those who suggest that under certain circumstances involving criminal threats to the public safety the interst of society especially crime control |
| public order advocates | take precedence over individual rights will be called |