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Criminal Justice System Exam 1What are constitutional rules/parameters? - correct answer ✔✔they are guidelines for the police officers
on what they can/cannot arrest people for
True or False: Crime control is expensive? - correct answer ✔✔True
What is crime control - correct answer ✔✔a balancing act between our desire for safety and our desire
for privacy/individual freedom
What is 9/11 an example of in terms of crime control - correct answer ✔✔after 9/11 many people
indicated their willingness to forgo individual liberties in order to combat terrorism
True or False: criminal justice in America involves decision making by professionals at many points in the
process - correct answer ✔✔True
What are the 3 crime control agencies? - correct answer ✔✔Law Enforcement
Courts
Corrections
What are these crime control agencies subdivided into? - correct answer ✔✔Local (police force at URI)
State (highway patrol)
Federal (FBI)
What is the process of criminal justice about? - correct answer ✔✔all about decision making in the
various agencies by criminal justice professionals; it can potentially change people's legal status
Example of going through the criminal justice process - correct answer ✔✔1) When police arrest a
"person of interest" the person becomes a suspect (they are booked, printed, file is made at police
station
, 2) when prosecutors criminally charge a suspect in court the suspect is now a "defendant"
3) When a defendant is tried in court and found guilty, the defendant becomes an "offender"
4) when an offender gets early release from corrections they then become a "parolee"
True or False: Decision Making among Criminal Justice professionals is "interdependent". If so what does
this mean? - correct answer ✔✔True; means that a decision made by one agency will affect decisions
made in another agency
Example: when police decide to arrest a person of interest a prosecutor must decide if there is a
sufficient case to move forward w/ a criminal charge
What is the Hydraulic Effect? - correct answer ✔✔each of these decisions being made by certain crime
control agencies involve some "discretion" on the part of the decision makers. If discretion is taken away
at any point in the the process (balloon effect)
Example: there are mandatory domestic violence laws that remove the discretion to arrest from the
police. If probably cause exists the police must arrest, prosecutor then uses discretion when deciding to
proceed with the case.
Examples of the way that while 3 criminal justice agencies are interdependent they are in several ways
independent - correct answer ✔✔Who controls their budger
1) local police- gets money through local government taxes
2) state police- state government taxes
Authority
Who they serve
Who they answer to
These agencies don't consider the effects of their decision of other criminal justice agencies
Formal Decision Making - correct answer ✔✔Formal- done according to the written rules; also known as
"by the book"; open to public view
books are: Constitution criminal laws and statutes, court decisions, written policies and procedures
Provides certainty and predictability throughout the system
Most formal decision making occurs in the court-professional standards they have to abide by
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