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The Criminal Justice System: CH 1-3 (The Flow of Decision Making in the…
The Criminal Justice System: CH 1-3
Operations of Criminal Justice Agencies
Courts
Police
Corrections
The Goals of Criminal Justice
Controlling Crime
Preventing Crime
Doing Justice
ADV. Goals: Evidence-Based Practices
Criminal Justice in a Federal System
Expansion of Federal Involvement
Two Justice Systems
Criminal Justice as a Social System
Resource Dependence
Sequential Tasks
Discretion
Filtering Process
at each stage some defendants are sent on to the next stage while others are released or processed under changed conditions.
The Flow of Decision Making in the CJS: 13 STEPS
Initial Appearance
Preliminary hearing/grand jury
Charging
7.Indictment/information
Booking
Arraignment
Arrest
Juvenile
Juvenile Justice System
Sentencing
Investigation
Appeal
Appeal
Corrections
Probation
Jail/Prison
Intermediate Sanction
Release
The CJ Wedding Cake
The lesser felonies
The serious felonies
The celebrated cases
The misdemeanors
Crime Control VS. Due Process
CC: Order as a value
DP: Law as a value
Disparity and Discrimination
"People of color commit more crimes."
"The CJS is Racially Biased."
"America is a Racially Biased Society."
Types of Crime
Transitional Crime
Victimless Crime
Organized Crime
Political Crime
Occupational Crime
Cybercrime
Visible Crime
How much crime is there?
The National Crime Victimization Surveys (NCVS)
The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
TRENDS IN CRIME
Age
Crime Victimization
Who is Victimized?
Women, Youth, Nonwhites
acquaintances and strangers
Low income city dwellers
The impact of crime
cost of crime
fear of crime
The experience of victims in the CJS
"After a crime has occurred the victim is often forgotten."
Foundations of Criminal Law
civil law
substantive criminal law
Legal responsibility
Substantive Criminal Law
felonies
Misdemeanors
civil infractions
7 principles of Criminal Law
Harm
Concurrence
Causation
Mens Rea (Guilty mind.)
The commission of an act is not a crime unless it is accompanied by a guilty state of mind.
Actus Reus
human acts, acts that were failed to take.
Punishment
Legality
The Bill of Rights
14th Amendment- barring states from violating people's right to due process of law.