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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 |
| word justice is | powerful |
| however justice is an | elusive term |
| justice might mean | and what form it .might eventually take |
| justice can be | a ambiguous term for politicians, public speakers |
| civil justice | one component of social justice concerns itself with fairness in relationships between citizens government agencies and businesses in private matters |
| criminal justice refers to | aspects of social justice that concerns violations of the criminal law |
| Administration of justice | "truth of action" within the process |
| Criminal justice systems consists 3 core components | 1 police 2 courts 3 corrections |
| Justice system work together by design to | achieve the wider purpose we have been calling justice |
| consensus model | hence the systems perspective on criminal justice generally encompasses a point of view |
| system calls to mind a near | perfect form of social organization |
| conflict model | provides another approach to the study of American criminal justice |
| Criminal justice nonsystem | Agencies often conflict and pressures for success, promotion, pay increases and general accountability fragment the efforts of the system as a whole |
| Justice is the ethical | philosophical idea that people should be treated fairly, properly reasonably by the law agents that carry out the law |
| Public must trust, believe in the | authority of the police |
| 21st century policing report also | states that people are more likely to obey the law when they believe authority of these enforcing the law is legitimate |
| Reimagine policy | suggest that the police should intitate this change process because the enforcement arm of the government they weild the bulk of the power in these interactions |
| We should go one step further by | also reimaging police training |
| cultural competence | ability to understand appreciate interact with people from culturals or belief systems |
| Contact hypothesis | idea that controlled contact between of two opposing groups tends to reduce tensions between them |
| system diverse of functions and it | levels are linked closely enough for the term system |
| due process | means procedural fairness |
| bill of rights | due process is supported by the fourth. fith, sixth and fourth amendment and itself supported by the fith |
| what we have been calling rights | are open to interpretation |