Chapter One

1. A 4 tier hiarcy top and lower tiers increasing in size as seriousness of cases decline
3. A crime control strategy whereby an offender who commits three or more violent offenses will be sentenced to a lengthy term in prison usually 25yrs to life
8. Explains how powerful groups create laws to protect their values and interest
9. Legal resolution of dispute
11. Explains how society creates laws as result of common interest and values
14. Legal finding by a jury or judge or through guilty plea, that a criminal defendant is guilt
15. Circumstances that tend to lessen the severity of the sentence
17. Authority to make decisions in enforcing the law based on one's observations and judgment rather than the letter of the law
18. The bringing of charges against a individual
19. Movement of defendants + cases through the criminal justice process

2. Authority to make decisions in enforcing the law based on ones observations and judgment rather than the letter of the law
4. A court or jury's judgment of verdict of not guilty of the offense's charges
5. Whereby one is sentenced for flexible time period (5-10yrs) so as to be released when rehabillated or when the opportunity for rehabilitation is presented
6. Elements of crime that enhance its seriousness, the infliction
7. A set of rules or values that spell out appropriate human conduct
10. A model by Parker that advocates defendant presumptions of innocence, protection of suspect rights, and limitations placed on police powers to avoid convicting innocent people
11. A model by Parker that that emphasizes law and order and argues that every effort must be made to suppress crime
12. Penalty or Punishment
13. Taking into custody or detaining of one who is suspected of committing a crime
16. Early release from prison with conditions attached and under supervision of a parole officer