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| A voluntary act or omission to which criminal reasponsibility can attack. |
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| The juvenile court hearing at which the juevenile is declared a delinquent or status offender, or no finding of fact is made. |
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| The proceeding in which a criminal defendant is brought before the court, formally advised of the charges, and required to enter a plea. |
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| Any significant deprivation of an individuals freedom of action, especially the taking of an individual into custody for the purpose of transporting him to a police station and charging him with a crime. |
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| Warrant directing or authorizing law enforcement officers to arrest an individual |
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| The secretive, insulated police culture that isolates officers from the rest of society. |
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| The administrative record of an arrest listing offenders name, address, physical description and arresting officer, it also includes photographing and fingerprinting of the offender. |
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| Belief that capital punishhe view ment creates an atmosphere of brutality, reinforces the view that violance is an appropriate response to provocation, and thus encourages rather than deters the criminal use of violance. |
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| A sworn written statement addressed to a court or judge by the police prosecutor, or individual alleging that an individual has committed an offense and requesting indictment and prosecution. |
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| A court that handles the final appeal on a matter. |
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| The Various sequential stages through which offenders pass from initial contact with the law to final disposition, and the agencies charged with enforcing the law at each of these stages. |
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| The body of rules that defines crimes, sets out their punishment, and mandates the procedures for carrying out the criminal justice process. |
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| The body of rules that defines crimes, sets out their punishments, and mandates the procedures for carrying out the criminal justice process. |
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| Grounds or fields attached to a house. |
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| The way in which a person outwardly manifest his or her personality. |
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| The initial questioning of own (prosecution or defense) witness during a trial. |
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| The use of personal decision making and choice in carrying out operations in the criminal justice system. |
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| The principle that prohibits using illegaly obtained evidence in a trial. |
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| Includes all information that is material and favorable to the accused defendant because it casts doubt on the defendents guilt or on the evidence the govt intends to use at trial. |
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| A law that makes an act criminal after it was commited or retoactively increases the penalty for a crime. |
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| A more serious crime that carries a penalty of incarceration in a state or federal prison, usually for one year or more. |
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| The Seizure of personal property by the state as a civil or criminal penalty. |
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| A group of citizens chosen to hear charges against persons accused of crime and to determine whether there is sufficeient evidence to bring the person to trial. |
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| Testimony that is not firsthand but relates information told by a second party. |
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| The policy of keeping dangerous criminals in confinement to eliminate the risk of their repeating their offense in society. |
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| A written accusation returned by a grand jury, charging an individual with a specified crime after determination of probable cause. |
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| A poor defender who lacks the funds to hire a private attorney and is therefore entitled to free counsel. |
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| A county correctional institution used to hold people awaiting trial or sentencing. |
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| The branch of government in a state invested with power to make and repeal laws. |
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| Placing a suspect in a group for the purpose of being viewed and identified by a witness. |
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| In common law, offenders that are from own nature evil,immoral, and wrong. |
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| A guilty mind: the intent to commit a criminal act |
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| The action by a grand jury when it votes not to indict an accused suspect. |
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| A plea of "no contest" the defendant submits to sentencing without any formal admission of guilt that could be used against him or her in a subsequent civil suit. |
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| Requirment that a search warrnant state precisely where the search is to take place and what items are to be seized. |
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| Actions such as abusive language, and stopping and searching people to harass them. |
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| A state or federal correctional institution for the incarceration of felony offenders for terms of one year or more. |
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| The evidentiary critertion necessary to substain an arrest or the issuance of an arrest or search warrant. |
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| Sentence entailing the conditional release of a convicted offender into the community under the supervision of the court. |
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| Pain, suffering, loss, or sanction inflicted on a person because he or she commited a crime. |
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| Criminal Sanction that requires the offender to repay the victim or society or both for damage caused by the criminal act. |
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| Chief law enfonrcement officer in a county. |
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| Legal principle by which the desicion or holding in am earlier case becomes the standard by which subsequent similar cases are judged. |
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| Police officer runs thier hands lightly over clothes to see if any weapons are present. |
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| Court Order requiring a witness to appear in court at a specified time and place. |
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| The action by a grand jury when it votes to indict an accused suspect. |
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| Group called for jury duty from which jury panels are selected. |
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| Role of the victim in provoking or encouraging criminal behavior. |
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| Process in which a potential jury panel is questioned by the prosecution and the defense to select jurors who are unbiased and objective. |
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| The Voluntary and deliberate relinquishing of a known right. |
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| A practice in which criminal defendants forfeit homes, cars, and so on for the slightest law violation. |
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