CJ 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jury Trial, Social Control, Status Offense
Document Summary
Criminalistics: the application of scientific techniques to the detection and evaluation of criminal evidence. Individual rights advocate: someone who wants to make sure an individuals right is insured. Public order advocate: sometimes individuals rights are not insured in order to protect the safety of others: current events can change which is more important, civil justice: fairness in relationships between citizens, government agencies, and business in. Justice: principle of fairness, and ideal of moral equity private matters: criminal justice: concerns for violations of the criminal law, crime: conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a legal jurisdiction. Probable cause: a set of facts and circumstances that would induce a reasonable intelligent and prudent person to believe that a particular other person has committed a specific crime. Individual rights v. group rights: required released sex offenders to register the police. 5th amendment: bar against double jeopardy; privilege against forced self-incrimination.
