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| What type of system is the US Criminal Justice system? | Adversarial system
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| How does the National Crime Victimization Survey get its information? | By surveying victims
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| How does the Uniform Crime Report get its information? | Police reporting
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| The two best sources of criminal statistics are... | National Crime Victimization Report and the Uniform Crime Report
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| Who makes the Uniform Crime Report? | The FBI
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| What is more common, interracial or intraracial crime? | Intraracial - not of the same race
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| Why are criminal statistics unreliable? | Statistics have: concealment, non-reporting, under-reporting, manipulations (all from police chiefs)
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| Why are there different categories of crimes? | For sentencing purposes
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| What year did criminal statistics start? | 1929
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| Who started criminal statistics? | Association of Police Chiefs (lobbying group)
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| Who took over criminal statistics after the APC could not handle it? | The FBI
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| What is the most accurate source for criminal statistics? | Nothing
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| 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.
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| Who is President Obama pick for the Supreme Court? | Sanya Sotomayor
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| How many Supreme Court Justices are there? | 9
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| Who is the current Supreme Court Justice? | John Roberts
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| Define: doing justice | The basis for the rules, procedures and institution of the criminal justice system
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| Define: federalism | A system of government in which power is divided between a central (national) and regional (state) governments
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| What events in the 1960s stirred interest in the criminal justice system? | rising crime rate, Vietnam war and the Civil Rights Movement
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| Define: adversarial | Two sided legal "battle", between prosecution and defense, to prove innocence or guilt. Both sides are intended to be equally paired adversaries.
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| Define: mala in se | Offenses that are wrong in themselves
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| Define: mala prohibita | Acts that are crimes because they are prohibited
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| Define: visible crime | "street crime", violent crimes, property crimes, public order
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