Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System

Test for 1.1. Crime and the Criminal Justice System

Test for 1.2. Deviance, Rule Violations, and Criminality

Test for 1.3. Social Norms: Folkways, Mores, Taboo, and Laws

Test for 1.4. Interactionist View

Test for 1.5. Consensus View and Decriminalizing Laws

Test for 1.6. Conflict View

Test for 1.7. The Three C's: Cops, Courts, and Corrections

Test for 1.8. The Crime Control and Due Process Models

Test for 1.9. How Cases Move Through the System

Test for 1.10. Media Coverage of Crimes

Test for 1.11. Wedding Cake Model of Justice

Test for 1.12. Street Crime, Corporate Crime, and White-Collar Crime

Test for 1.13. Different Types of Crimes and Offenses

Test for 1.14. Victims and Victim Typologies

Test for 1.15. Victim Rights and Assistance

Test for 1.16. "Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child" Myth/Controversy

Test for 2.1. Dark or Hidden Figure of Crime

Test for 2.2. Official Statistics

Test for 2.3. Victimization Studies

Test for 2.4. Self-Report Statistics

Test for 2.5. Misusing Statistics

Test for 3.1. Functions and Limitations of Law

Test for 3.2. Civil, Criminal, and Moral Wrongs

Test for 3.3. Sources of Criminal Law: Federal and State Constitutions

Test for 3.4. Sources of Criminal Law: Statutes, Ordinances, and Other Legislative Enactments

Test for 3.5. Sources of Law: Administrative Law, Common Law, Case Law and Court Rules

Test for 3.6. Classifications of Law

Test for 3.7. Substantive Law: Defining Crimes, Inchoate Liability, Accomplice Liability, and Defenses

Test for 3.8. Substantive Law: Punishment: Incarceration and Confinement Sanctions

Test for 3.9. Substantive Law: Physical Punishment Sentences

Test for 3.10. Substantive Law: Monetary Punishment Sentences

Test for 3.11. Substantive Law: Community-Based Sentences

Test for 3.12. Procedural Law

Test for 4.1. Importance of Policy in Criminal Justice

Test for 4.2. The Myth of Moral Panics

Test for 4.3. The Stages of Policy Development

Test for 4.4. Importance of Evidence Based Practices

Test for 4.5. Re-Evaluating Policy

Test for 5.1. What is Theory?

Test for 5.2. What Makes a Good Theory?

Test for 5.3. Pre-Classical Theory

Test for 5.4. Classical School

Test for 5.5. Neoclassical

Test for 5.6. Positivist Criminology

Test for 5.7. Biological and Psychological Positivism

Test for 5.8. The Chicago School

Test for 5.9. Strain Theories

Test for 5.10. Learning Theories

Test for 5.11. Control Theories

Test for 5.12. Other Criminological Theories

Test for 6.1. Policing in Ancient Times

Test for 6.2. Sir Robert Peel

Test for 6.3. Policing Eras

Test for 6.4. Levels of Policing and Role of Police

Test for 6.5. Recruitment and Hiring in Policing

Test for 6.6. Recruitment and Hiring Websites for Future Careers

Test for 6.7. Police Misconduct, Accountability, and Corruption

Test for 6.8. Current Issues: Police Shootings

Test for 6.9. Current Issues: Use of Force and Vehicle Pursuits

Test for 6.10. Current Issues: Stereotypes in Policing

Test for 6.11. Current Issues: Accountability

Test for 6.12. Current Issues: Internal Affairs and Discipline

Test for 6.13.Current Issues: Body Cameras

Test for 6.14. Myth: “Police Only Write Speeding Tickets to Harass Citizens and it is Entrapment.”

Test for 7.1. Introduction to the U.S. Court System

Test for 7.2. Jurisdiction

Test for 7.3. Structure of the Courts: The Dual Court and Federal Court System

Test for 7.4. Structure of the Courts: State Courts

Test for 7.5. American Trial Courts and the Principle of Orality

Test for 7.6. The Appeals Process, Standard of Review, and Appellate Decisions

Test for 7.7. Federal Appellate Review of State Cases

Test for 7.8. Courtroom Players: Judges and Court Staff

Test for 7.9. Courtroom Players: Prosecutors

Test for 7.10. Courtroom Workgroup: Defense Attorneys

Test for 8.1. A Brief History of The Philosophies of Punishment

Test for 8.2. Retribution

Test for 8.3. Deterrence

Test for 8.4. Incapacitation

Test for 8.5. Rehabilitation

Test for 8.6. Prisons and Jails

Test for 8.7. A Brief History of Prisons and Jails

Test for 8.8. Types of Jails

Test for 8.9. Who Goes to Jail?

Test for 8.10. Growth of Prisons in the United States

Test for 8.11. Types of Prisons

Test for 8.12. Prison Levels

Test for 8.13. Who Goes to Prison?

Test for 9.1. Diversion

Test for 9.2. Intermediate Sanctions

Test for 9.3. Probation

Test for 9.4. Boot Camps/Shock Incarceration

Test for 9.5. Drug Courts

Test for 9.6. Halfway Houses

Test for 9.8. House Arrest

Test for 9.9. Community Residential Facilities

Test for 9.10. Restorative Justice

Test for 9.11. Parole

Test for 9.12. Current Issues in Corrections

Test for 9.13. Current Issues in Corrections: Mass Incarceration

Test for 9.14. Current Issues in Corrections: War on Drugs and Gangs

Test for 9.15. Current Issues in Corrections: Aging and Overcrowding

Test for 9.16. Current Issues in Corrections: Reentry and the Future of Corrections

Test for 10.1. Youth Crime

Test for 10.2. Juvenile Justice

Test for 10.3. History of the Juvenile Justice System

Test for 10.4. Delinquency

Test for 10.5. Juvenile Justice Process

Test for 10.6. Due Process in the Juvenile Court

Test for 10.7. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974

Test for 10.8. Getting Tough: Initiatives for Punishment and Accountability

Test for 10.9. Returning to Rehabilitation in the Contemporary Juvenile Justice System

Test for 10.10. The Structure of the Juvenile Justice System

Test for 10.11. Juvenile Institutions

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