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Term | Definition |
Institution of Social Control | The administrative recording of an arrest. |
Booking | A politically defined geographical area. |
Misdemeanor | Usually the violation of law of a city or town. |
Arrest | A less serious crime generally punishable by a fine or by incarceration in jail for not more than one year. |
Ordinance Violation | An organization that persuades people, through subtle and not so subtle means to abide by the dominant values of society. |
Grand Jury Indictment | A written accusation by a grand jury that a person has committed a crime. |
Jurisdiction | A pretrial stage in which a defendant is brought before a lower court to be given notice of the charges(s) and advised of his/her constitutional rights |
Initial Apperance | The seizing and detecting of a person by lawful authority |
Bench Trail | The conditional release of prisoners before they have served their full sentences |
Summary Trail | One of Packer's two models of the criminal justice process. Politically, it embodies traditional liberal values. In this this model, the principal goal of criminal justice is at least as much to protect the innocent as it is to convict the guilty. |
Nonenforcement | Criminal conduct----specifically intentionally or criminally negligent (reckless) action or inaction that causes harm. |
Actus Reus | An immediate trail without a jury. |
Mens Rea | A trail before a judge, without a jury. |
Mala in se | The failure to routinely enforce prohibits against certain behaviors. |
Dark Figure Of Crime | Criminal intent; a guilty state of mind. |
Parole | Wrong in themselves. a description applied to crimes that are characterized by university and timelessness. |
Arraignment | The number of crimes not officially recorded by the police. |
Due Process Model | An estimate of crimes committed. |
Crime Index | A legal term that rests on the assumption that someone who is insane at the time of crime lacks the capacity to form mens rea. |
Insanity | A pretrial stage to hear the information or indictment and to allow a plea. |
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