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Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction, 12th Edition Chapters 1,2 &3 correctly answered to pass
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Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction,12th Edition Chapters 1,2 &3
Concurrent Jurisdiction - correct answer ✔✔Other courts have equal statutory authority to originate
proceedings.
Criminal Justice System - correct answer ✔✔Consisting of the component agencies of police, courts, and
corrections.
Consensus Model - correct answer ✔✔A criminal justice perspective that assumes that the system's
components work together harmoniously to achieve the social product we call "justice".
Conflict Model - correct answer ✔✔A criminal justice perspective that assumes that the system's
components function primarily to serve their own interests.
Crime - correct answer ✔✔Conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a state, the federal government,
or a local jurisdiction, for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse.
Hate Crimes - correct answer ✔✔Hatred, bias, or prejudice, based on a persons race, color, religion,
individual or group of individuals.
Race - correct answer ✔✔Dividing into populations based on characteristics.
Probable Cause - correct answer ✔✔Evidence that someone committed a specific crime.
Reasonable Suspicion - correct answer ✔✔Permit stopping a person for questioning or for a simple pat-
down search.
First Degree Murder - correct answer ✔✔Criminal homicide that was planned.
, Second Degree Murder - correct answer ✔✔Intentional and unlawful killing but one that is generally
unplanned and that happens "in the heat of the moment."
Third Degree Murder - correct answer ✔✔Manslaughter or another type of homicide, can be defined
simply as the unlawful killing of a human being.
Sixth Amendment - correct answer ✔✔The accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by
an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.
Fourteenth Amendment - correct answer ✔✔Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in
the United States," which included former slaves recently freed.
Alibi - correct answer ✔✔Defendant could not have committed the crime in question because he or she
was somewhere else.
Multiculturalism - correct answer ✔✔A society that is home to a multitude of different cultures, each
with its own set of norms, values, and routine behaviors.
Rape - correct answer ✔✔Unwanted or unconsensual sex.
Guilty - correct answer ✔✔Capable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing.
Harassment - correct answer ✔✔Aggressive pressure or intimidation.
Stalking - correct answer ✔✔Following someone who doesn't want to be followed. Repeated harassing
and threatening behavior by one individual against another.
Corpus Delicti - correct answer ✔✔Body of the crime, criminal act committed and there's a person there
that did it.
Criminal Law - correct answer ✔✔Body of rules and regulations that define and specify the nature.
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