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Criminal Justice Exam Chapters 1-4Due Process Model - correct answer ✔✔A model of the CJ system that stresses the possibility of error
and emphasizes the need to protect procedural rights, even if it slows us down
Crime Control Model - correct answer ✔✔A Model of the CJ system that emphasizes efficiency and says
it is okay to overlook individual rights to protect society from criminal behavior
Wedding Cake Model - correct answer ✔✔A model of the CJ system that has the highest celebrity cases
making up the top of the cake but with the least amount of them in the system and the lowest layer
making up 85-90% of the caking representing misdemeanors
Funnel Model - correct answer ✔✔A model of the CJ system which shows a heavy amount of cases enter
the system but most are dropped out very quick
Consensus Model - correct answer ✔✔Otherwise knows as the systems model, this model of the CJ
system says that organizations should work cooperatively to create Justice
Conflict Model - correct answer ✔✔Otherwise known as the non systems model, this model of the CJ
system says that the branches of justice should work competitively, as parts of an integrated whole
Criminal Justice - correct answer ✔✔the structure, functions, and processes of those agencies that deal
with the management of crime
Criminology - correct answer ✔✔the scientific study of the nature and causes of crime
Criminal Law - correct answer ✔✔branch of modern jurisprudence that deals with offenses committed
against the safety and order of the state
Criminal Procedure - correct answer ✔✔a series of steps to determine innocent or guilty
, Constitutional Law - correct answer ✔✔legal rules and principles that define the nature and limits of
governmental power and the duties and rights of individuals with relation to the state
Deterrence Theory - correct answer ✔✔The theory that tries to make people not want to commit a
crime by increasing the punishment
Doing justice, preventing crime, and controlling crime - correct answer ✔✔The Three Goals of the CJ
System
Federalism - correct answer ✔✔A system of government where power is divided between a central
(national) government and a regional (state) government- with lots of overlap
Dual Justice System - correct answer ✔✔A system in which both the nation and state governments have
their own and separate CJ systems, with their own officers, prisons, etc.
Occupational Crime - correct answer ✔✔Crime committed that is at your job, or violates the contract
you signed with your employer
Organized Crime - correct answer ✔✔a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly
centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for
money and profit. ex-mafia, terrorist groups
Visible (street) crime - correct answer ✔✔The crime the criminal Justice system deals with mostly
Victimless crime - correct answer ✔✔Crimes in which all parties are consenting to do something illegal
ex-prostitution, gambling
Political Crimes - correct answer ✔✔an offense involving overt acts or omissions (where there is a duty
to act), which prejudice the interests of the state, its government, or the political system.
Mala in se - correct answer ✔✔Evil in itself, inherent wrong
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