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Common Criminal Justice Terms
Common Criminal Justice Terms and Descriptions
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Undergraduate 1
08/27/2010

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Crime
Definition
Breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction
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Justice
Definition
Concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, fairness, or equity.
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Social Justice
Definition
The application of the concept of justice on a social scale.
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Civil Justice
Definition
Civil justice refers to the area of law not covered by criminal law and includes matters such as suing for negligence and resolution of disputes. Non-criminal
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Criminal Justice Administration
Definition
The process of administering the criminal justice process
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consensus model
Definition
When a criminal justice administration works cooperatively to produce justice, as opposed to competitively
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Conflict Model
Definition
The model that says that the criminal justice system either do, or should, work competitively to produce justice, as opposed to cooperatively.
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Due process
Definition
The principle that the government must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person according to the law
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