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Intro to Criminal Justice Exam 1- TexasState Eckert
What is the ultimate institution of social control? - correct answer ✔✔the criminal justice system
define: norms - correct answer ✔✔expectation of behavior
define: codified - correct answer ✔✔crime is linked to punishment
ex: murder is punishable by years in prison or the death sentence
what does the 10th amendment do? - correct answer ✔✔gives power to the states
What I the only crime mentioned in the constitution? - correct answer ✔✔treason
what are the three pillars of the criminal justice system? - correct answer ✔✔law enforcement, courts,
corrections
define: penal codes - correct answer ✔✔organized lists of law
define: felony - correct answer ✔✔more serious crimes- punishable with a year or more in prison or
death
define: misdemeanors - correct answer ✔✔less serious crimes- punishable with a year or less in jail with
probation as a possibility in some cases
define: homeostasis - correct answer ✔✔resistance to change within a system
government function of law enforcement - correct answer ✔✔enforces laws made by legislative branch;
is a function of the executive branch
, government function of the courts - correct answer ✔✔the entire judicial branch; where innocence or
guilt and sentencing is decided
government function of corrections - correct answer ✔✔function of the executive branch; carries out
sanction
what are the 7 legal elements of a crime? - correct answer ✔✔harm, legality, actus reus, mens rea,
causation between harm and actus reus, concurrence between actus reus and mens rea, and
punishment
actus reus - correct answer ✔✔criminal conduct
mens rea - correct answer ✔✔criminal intent
3 major correlate of crime - correct answer ✔✔age, gender and race
T/F: Correlation means causation - correct answer ✔✔FALSE
define: correlation - correct answer ✔✔a statistical association between two characteristics in a
sample/population; a factor associated with the incidence of crime
define: spurious correlations - correct answer ✔✔a false presumption that two variables are correlated
when they are not often a result of a third factor that is not immediately apparent
which division of the criminal justice system is the most expensive? - correct answer ✔✔law
enforcement
how much does the criminal justice system cost as of 2015? - correct answer ✔✔255 billion
define: ideology - correct answer ✔✔a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of
economic or political theory and policy; can effect how we view agendas
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