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| Goals of the criminal justice system |
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| Do justice, prevent crime, control crime |
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| Components of the Criminal Justice system |
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| Courts, cops, corrections |
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| Factors affecting the criminal justice system |
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| Social, economic, political, and law |
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| Four duties of the police |
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| keeping the peace, apprehending violators and combating crime, preventing crime, and providing social services |
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| Flow of decision making in CJ system |
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| Police-prosecution-courts-corrections |
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| physical taking of a person into custody on the grounds that he/she has committed a crime. |
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| a court order authorizing the police to take certain actions |
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| a document charging a person with a crime |
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| a document returned by a grand jury as a "true bill" charging an individual with a specific crime on the basis of probably cause. |
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| serious crimes that carry the penalty of death or incarceration for more than a year. |
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| crimes that are punishable by incarceration for less than a year. |
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| a difference between groups |
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| differential treatment of individuals based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or economic status instead of on their behavior or qualifications. |
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| NOT all cases are treated equally. some are celebrated more than others. |
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| Focuses on careful, reliable decisions, protection of rights. |
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| emphasizes efficient processing of cases in order to repress crime. |
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| visible, occupational, organized, crimes without victims, political, and cyber crime. |
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| crimes that are wrong in themselves such as murder |
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| offenses prohibited by law but not wrong in themselves |
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