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Intro to Criminal Justice Exam 1 Chapters 1-4 correctly answered to pass
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Intro to Criminal Justice Exam 1Chapters 1-4
Crime Control Model - correct answer ✔✔the model that emphasizes law and order and argues that
every effort must be made to suppress crime and to try, convict, and incarcerate offenders.
Crime Control Model - correct answer ✔✔deter criminal conduct, accused is presumed guilty, police and
prosecutors should have extensive freedom to exercise their own discretion, offenders should be
punished swiftly, only swift and certain punishment will deter crime.
Due Process Model - correct answer ✔✔The model that advocates the defendant's presumption of
innocence, protection of suspect's rights, and limitations placed on police to avoid convicting innocent
persons.
Discretion - correct answer ✔✔the authority to make decisions in enforcing the law based on one's
observation and judgment rather than the letter of the law.
Examples of discretion throughout the cj system - correct answer ✔✔police officers exercise discretion
when deciding whether to stop, search, or arrest someone, prosecuting attorneys decide whether to
bring criminal charges, judges when setting or denying bail and imposing sentences.
Criminal Justice flow and process - correct answer ✔✔the movement of defendants and cases through
the cj process, beginning with the commission of a crime, and including stages that involve actions of
criminal justice actors working within police, courts, and correctional agencies.
Horizontal movement - correct answer ✔✔beginning with the commission of a crime, investigation,
arrest, initial appearance, arraignment, trial, verdict, sentencing, and appeal.
Vertical movement - correct answer ✔✔not discovered or reported, no perpetrator was identified or
apprehended.
, Probable cause - correct answer ✔✔legal term that refers to information that would lead a reasonable
person to believe that a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime.
Arraignment - correct answer ✔✔This is where the accused is informed of the charges, advised of their
rights, and asked to enter a plea.
Aggravating circumstances - correct answer ✔✔elements of a crime that enhance its seriousness, such
as the infliction of torture, killing of a child or pregnant woman, etc.
mitigating circumstances - correct answer ✔✔circumstances that would tend to lessen the severity of
the sentence, such as one's youthfulness, mental instability, not having a prior criminal record, etc.
indeterminate sentence - correct answer ✔✔a scheme whereby one is sentenced for a flexible time
period (e.g. 5-10 years) as to be released when rehabilitated or the opportunity for rehabilitation is
presented.
Determinate sentence - correct answer ✔✔a specific, fixed-period sentence ordered by a court (e.g. 5
years)
Common law - correct answer ✔✔collections of rules, customs, and traditions of medieval England in an
attempt to unify the law and create one process.
Stare Decisis - correct answer ✔✔Latin for "to stand by a decision".
Criminal Law - correct answer ✔✔Laws that define criminal acts and how such acts will be punished.
Criminal Law - correct answer ✔✔Foundation of the criminal justice system.
Civil law - correct answer ✔✔A generic term for all noncriminal law, usually related to settling disputes
between private citizens, governmental, and/or business entities.
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