Criminal Justice Quiz 1 (Chapters 1-4)

What are the three main components of the Criminal Justice System?

Law enforcement, courts, and corrections

Police

Enforce law and maintain order

Courts

Protect rights and determine guilt or innocence

Corrections

Prevent crime and protect the public

Juvenile Justice System

A system through which cases involving juvenile offenders are processed

Four layers of cases that flow through the system

Celebrated cases, heavy duty cases, lightweight cases, and misdemeanors

Controversial cases

Lethal injection, immigration, and politics and crime

Criminology

Scientific study of crime

Crime

Illegal act according to the criminal law

Alibi defense

When someone can show that an individual was somewhere else instead of the crime scene

Status offenses

Offenses that are illegal for juviniles but not adults ex. skipping school

Uniform Crime Report

Collects data about crimes reported to the police

National Crime Victimization Survey

Collects information directly from U.S residents

National Incident Based Reporting System

Captures detailed data about the characteristics of criminal incidents

Crime typologies

Framework for understanding the thousands of types of crime that exists

Violent Crime

Behavior that causes direct physical harm or threat of physical harm

Types of violent crime

Homicide, assault, violent sex crimes, robbery

Frist degree murder

Homicides that are premeditated and deliberate

Second degree murder

Homicides that are not planed but are intentional

Serial killers

Indiviuals who kill several victims over time

Mass murderes

Individuals who kill a large number of victims all at once