Shared Flashcard Set

Details

cj101
00
41
Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 2
12/15/2010

Additional Criminal Justice Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Prison
Definition
short term confinement of suspects follwing arrest awaiting tria.
Term
Purpose Of Jail
Definition
To hold those convicted of a misdemeanors and some small felonies as well as holding suspects awaiting trial.
Term
Hand-Off Doctrine
Definition
Courts didnt want to interfer with the authority of the executive branch to administerprisons.
Term
Quaker System
Definition
goal was to provide religion and humanity to imprison offenders held in solitary confinement.
Term
Auburn System
Definition

The era introduced congregate but silent style.

Mass Prison Era known as the Auburn system

 

Term
Medical Model
Definition

Treatment Era

Treatment based on medical model

individual and group therapy programs evolved

Term
Parens Patriae
Definition
Common law principle that allows state to take custody of a child when s/he becomes delinquentis abandoned or is in need of care which the natural parents are unable or unwilling to provide
Term
House of Refuse
Definition

Society for prevention of pauperisim established first in New York City.

They were designed to save children from lives of proverty and crime.

They housed mostly thieves,vagrants and runaways

Term
Categories of Children
Definition
  • Delinquent - children who violated the criminal law if adults would be charge with the offense.
  • Undisciplined - kids said to be beyond parental control and therefore in need of state protection.
  • Dependent - kids who typically have no parents
  • Neglected - kids who didnt receive proper care
  • Abused - kids who suffered physical abuse
  • Status Offenders - kids who are runaways,curfewof truancy.
Term
Cohort Analysis
Definition
  • A group of individual sharing similarities of age, place or birth and residence
  • A social science technique by which cohorts are tracked over time in order to identify unique and observable behavioral traits which characterize them.
Term
In Re Winship
Definition

Winship was charged with illegally entering a locker and stealing $112 form a pocketbook.

U.S. Supreme court upheld appeal estabishing proof beyond a reasable doubt

Term
Kent v. US
Definition

Arrested i D.C and charged with several burglaries and attempted purse snatchin.

The case ended "hand off"era in juvenile justice

He got off because they sent him to adult court without a juvenile hearing.

Term
Detention Hearing
Definition
These are conducted by a juvenile courts judge
Term
Adjudication
Definition
  • The court room stage at the juvenile level which is imilar in substance to a criminal hearing or trial.
  • An emphasis is placed on privacy.
  • Adjudicatory hearings tend  to be less formal than a criminal trial.
Term
Disposition
Definition
  • The final stage in processing of adjudicated juveniles in which decision is made on the form of treatment or penalty which should be imposed.
  • judge typicall has wider range of dipositions than do judges in adult criminal cases.
Term
Rules of Law
Definition
 no person is immuned to law
Term
Corpus Delicti
Definition
It must be proven that crime has occured  before a person can be convicted of committing the crime
Term
Court Appointed Attorney
Definition
lawyers who provide legal counsel to those criminals who cant afftord it
Term
Bailiff
Definition
  • Charged with ensuring order in the court room.
  • Announces entry of the Judge
  • Calls out names of witnesses
Term
Prosecuting Attorney
Definition
  • Decides which charges are to be filled against the defendant.
  • Introduces evidence against defendant at trial.
  • Directs testimony of witnesses for the state.
Term
Public defender
Definition
Full-time salaried attorney for the state.
Term
Judge
Definition
  • Ensure justice take place.
  • Rules on matters of the law
Term
Habeus Corpus
Definition

an order dircting the person detaining a prisoner to bring him before a judicial.

 

means - you have the body.

Term
Chimel v. CA
Definition

Convicted of burglarizing a coin shop based on evidence gathered at his arrest.

 

U.S Supreme Court the decided that the search became invalid when it went beyond the arrested person's area of "immediate control"

Term
Mapp V. Ohio
Definition
  • Was suspected of hiding a bombing suspect
  • U.S Supreme court decided :14th amendent due process applied to local police not just federal offecers.
  • Evidence against illegally obtained
Term
Weeks v. US
Definition
  • is suspected of selling lottery tickets throught the mail.
  • His personal property is conifiscated.
  • some the property had been illegally seized then the remainder of the proprety is alos consideredto be illegally seized.
  • this case established the Excusionary rule.
Term
Terry V. Ohio
Definition
  • was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon.
  • appealed bascd on fact that the officer had no probable cause to search.
  • stop and frisk - requires reasonable suspicion.
Term
Miranda V. Arizona
Definition

was arrested for kidnapping and rape

 

the entire aura and atmosphereof police interrogation without notification of his right.

Term
Pre-Trial Motions
Definition
  • discovery
  • Plea Negatiations
Term
Arraignment
Definition
  • Read list of charges
  • First Time Accused Pleads
  • Guilty
  • Not Guilty
  • Nolo Contendere
Term
Preliminary Hearing
Definition
  • Aproceeding before a judicial officer in which three matter must be decided
  • that a crime has been committed
  • Within jurisdiction of a court
  • Reasonable ground to believe defendant committed crime.
Term
Preliminary Arraignment
Definition
  • Advised of charges
  • Advised of Right
  • Set bail
  • Set preliminary hearing date
Term
Sentencing
Definition
  • Pre-sentence investigation
  • Mandatory Guidelines
Term
Sentencing
Definition
  • Pre-sentence investigation
  • Mandatory Guidelines
Term
reasonable Suspicion
Definition
a belief based upod a consideration of the facts at hand and upod reasonable infernce drown from those fact that would induce an ordinarily prudent and cautions person to conclude that criminal activity is taking place.
Term
Probable Cause
Definition
A set of fact and circumstances that would induce a creasonably intelligent and prudent person to believe that a particulor other person has committed a specific crime
Term
14th Amendent
Definition

Defines citizenship and deals with post-civil war issues

 

due process

Term
8th amendment
Definition
prohibits excessive fines and excessive bail as wellas cruel and unusual punishment
Term
5th amendment
Definition
Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminentdomain protects the right to due process and prohibaits self-incrimination and double jeopardy.
Term
4th amendment
Definition
prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and set out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause
Term
1st amendment
Definition
protect the freedomof religion,speech, and the press as well as the right to assemble and petition the government.
Supporting users have an ad free experience!