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| What are the three branches of government? |
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| Executive, Judicial, & Legislature |
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| What is the current correctional population in the United States? |
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| What is the current cost of the criminal justice system in the United States? |
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| What are the three main components of the contemporary criminal justice system? |
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| Police, Courts, & Corrections |
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| Define the American Bar Foundation Project. |
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| Designed to provide in-depth analysis of the organization, administration and operation of criminal justice agencies. |
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| Is the contemporary criminal justice system viewed as an instrument of social control? Why? |
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| Yes because some behaviors are considered so dangerous that they must be either strictly controlled or outlawed outright; some people are so destructive they must be monitored or confined. |
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| Define the criminal justice system component "Law Enforcement". |
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| Investigate crimes and apprehend subjects |
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| The ability of society and its institutions to control, manage, restrain, or direct human behavior |
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| What did the American Bar Foundation Project discover in the 1950's about the criminal justice system? |
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| The justice system contained many procedures that heretofore had been kept hidden from the public view |
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| What century had the highest crime rate? Lowest crime rate? |
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| 19th century, 21st century |
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| Describe the Paul Hill Murder Case. |
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| Paul Hill was executed for the murder of Bayard Britton and his bodyguard, James Herman Barret. They were killed in an abortion clinic |
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| A state or federal correctional facility that houses convicted criminals who have been sentenced to a period of confinement that is typically more than one year. |
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| What has the correctional population done since 1990? |
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| What was the first police agency? |
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| The London Metropolitan Police |
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| Federal agency that granted hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to local and state justice agencies between 1968 & 1982 |
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| Name institutions of social control. |
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| Define the fourth amendment. |
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| Bars illegal "searches and seizures" |
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| Define the criminal justice system component "Courts". |
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| Where criminals are charged, tried, and sentenced |
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| Court-ordered community supervision of convicted offenders by a probation agency. |
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| Define the branch of government "Judicial". |
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| interprets the existing law and determines whether it meets constitutional requirements. |
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| Define the criminal justice system component "Correctional System". |
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| Incapacitates convicted offenders and attempts to aid in their treatment and rehabilitation. |
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| How was the Chicago Crime Commission funded? |
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| What organization is credited with ringing in the modern era of criminal justice? |
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| The American Bar Foundation |
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| Community supervision after a period of incarceration |
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| Define the branch of government "Executive". |
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| Law enforcement/corrections. plans programs, appoint personnel, and exercise administrative responsibility for criminal justice agencies |
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| In the criminal justice system what two components began in the mid 19th century in the United States? |
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| Who was Cesare Beccaria? What was his credit to the criminal justice system? |
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| An Italian social philosopher who made a persuasive argument against the use of torture and capital punishment. He influenced the criminal justice system that potential law violators would most certainly be deterred if agencies were created by government. |
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| Define the Wickersham Commission? |
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| National study group that makes a detailed analysis of the U.S. justice system and helped usher in the era of treatment and rehabilitation. |
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