CCJ 3024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Malum Prohibitum, Moral Agency
24 Jul 2018
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What is criminal justice? society"s response to crime. Cj can act as a system profession bureaucracy moral agency academic discipline criminal justice as a system ways police, courts, and corrections work together to process a case from start to finish; there is discretion at every decision point. Cj as a profession common educational background code of ethics specialized tasks quality control lifetime membership acquire prestige discretion. Law enforcement assistance administration (leaa) est in 1968 distributes federal funds to improve cj practice. "nulla poena sine lege" there can be no crime without the law there can be no punishment without the law mala in se mala prohibita in se: inherently bad (murder) prohibita: bad because society says (partner violence) Uniform crime report (ucr) official source of crime data in the us yearly report on the data collected from local law enforcement agencies and compiled by the fbi.
