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| the giving or accepting of money or other things of value in return for promises to grant favors to the party giving the bribe |
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| a building used for gambling |
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| written or visual materials dealing with sexual behavior and often intended to arouse sexual desire |
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| an attractive but prohibited object or behavior. in the drug legalization debate, the term is used to imply that the illegality of drugs may attract people, and especially adolescents, to use them |
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| a public policy strategy in which drug use is treated as a public health problem and not as a crime problem |
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| the elimination of laws prohibiting certain behaviors, especially consensual crimes |
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| a concerted effort to prevent and punish behavior considered immoral |
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| ethical or virtuous conduct |
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| refers in the drug legalization debate to whether drug laws result in more disadvantages than advantages |
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| sexually explicit materials that do not involve violent acts |
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| sexually explicit materials that depict violence |
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| a form of police misconduct involving the undue or excessive use of physical coercion to subdue a suspect or other citizen |
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| a style of policing in which police patrol neighborhoods on foot and try to help their residents solve community problems |
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| an official appointed by medieval English nobles to control poaching and otherwise monitor the behavior of people living on the nobles' land |
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| dishonest practices, especially when committed by public or corporate officials |
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| the short-term concentration of police resources in a specific neighborhood, usually to control a specific activity, such as drug possession and trafficking |
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| the use of the criminal justice system to prevent and punish crime. the model refers to the belief that it is the primary goal of the criminal justice system |
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| a society in which people freely elect officials to represent the interests of all people |
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| in criminology, having a deterrent on crime |
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| latitude in decision making |
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| treating people committing similar crimes differently because of their race, ethnicity, gender, social class, age, etc. |
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| the difficulties faced by minority female police officers because of their race and gender |
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| rights granted to criminal defendants by the U.S. Constitution and judicial rulings |
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| a rule the prohibits evidence from criminal trials that was gathered in violation of judicial rulings; also includes other procedural rules governing the gathering of evidence |
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| refers to race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and other nonlegal factors that may affect arrest, sentencing, and other legal decision making |
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| police who engage in minor bribery and other corruption |
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| police who engage in serious forms of corruption |
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| police sexual violence (PSV) |
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| violence committed by police against female suspects or other female civilians |
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| term, often pejorative, used for the rules governing the gathering of evidence against a criminal suspect |
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| the personality associated with a particular occupation |
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| a style of aggressive policing that encourages arrests for even minor infractions of the law |
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