| Question | Answer |
| What type of system is the US Criminal Justice system? | Adversarial system |
| How does the National Crime Victimization Survey get its information? | By surveying victims |
| How does the Uniform Crime Report get its information? | Police reporting |
| The two best sources of criminal statistics are... | National Crime Victimization Report and the Uniform Crime Report |
| Who makes the Uniform Crime Report? | The FBI |
| What is more common, interracial or intraracial crime? | Intraracial - not of the same race |
| Why are criminal statistics unreliable? | Statistics have: concealment, non-reporting, under-reporting, manipulations (all from police chiefs) |
| Why are there different categories of crimes? | For sentencing purposes |
| What year did criminal statistics start? | 1929 |
| Who started criminal statistics? | Association of Police Chiefs (lobbying group) |
| Who took over criminal statistics after the APC could not handle it? | The FBI |
| What is the most accurate source for criminal statistics? | Nothing |
| Why is crime not reported? | Victims are scared of attacker or have no faith in system. Vigilantes take law into their own hands. Offenders don't want the police asking them questions. |
| Who is President Obama pick for the Supreme Court? | Sanya Sotomayor |
| How many Supreme Court Justices are there? | 9 |
| Who is the current Supreme Court Justice? | John Roberts |
| Define: doing justice | The basis for the rules, procedures and institution of the criminal justice system |
| Define: federalism | A system of government in which power is divided between a central (national) and regional (state) governments |
| What events in the 1960s stirred interest in the criminal justice system? | rising crime rate, Vietnam war and the Civil Rights Movement |
| Define: adversarial | Two sided legal "battle", between prosecution and defense, to prove innocence or guilt. Both sides are intended to be equally paired adversaries. |
| Define: mala in se | Offenses that are wrong in themselves |
| Define: mala prohibita | Acts that are crimes because they are prohibited |
| Define: visible crime | "street crime", violent crimes, property crimes, public order |
