Glossary of Criminal Justice Terms: Crime Control Strategies and Police Practices, Quizzes of Criminal Justice

Download Glossary of Criminal Justice Terms: Crime Control Strategies and Police Practices and more Quizzes Criminal Justice in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 one size fits all approach to crime control DEFINITION 1 law enforcement reacts the same way to all crime in all places at all times in the same way TERM 2 crime attack strategies DEFINITION 2 police home in on specific types of suspicious people in specific places at specific times to prevent or interrupt crimes and arrest suspects for committing specific crimes TERM 3 community policing strategy DEFINITION 3 based on the idea that the police can best carry out their missions by helping communities help themselves by getting all the causes of and finding solutions to community problems TERM 4 preventitive patrol DEFINITION 4 officers move through their beats on food or in vehicles, making themselves visible to control crime and reassure law abiding people they're safe. TERM 5 preliminary investigation DEFINITION 5 patrol officers collect information at crime scenes and write incident reports describing what they learned TERM 6 incident reports DEFINITION 6 written reports describing what patrol officers found during preliminary investigations TERM 7 follow up investigations DEFINITION 7 an investigation by detectives after the preliminary investigation by patrol officers TERM 8 hot spot patrol DEFINITION 8 based on the idea that some locations like intersections and buildings at certain times need special attention because they generate a substantial portion of calls for law enforcement services TERM 9 police crackdowns DEFINITION 9 sudden increases in police activity at particular places during hot days and times TERM 10 field interrogation DEFINITION 10 police stop, question, and sometimes search people who don't look or act right. TERM 21 limited jurisdiction DEFINITION 21 power (jurisdiction) to decide misdemeanors and conduct preliminary proceedings in felony cases TERM 22 general jurisdiction DEFINITION 22 power to decide all felony cases from capital murder to theft and also review the decisions of lower courts TERM 23 appellate courts DEFINITION 23 courts that review the proceedings in the trial court TERM 24 writ of habeas corpus DEFINITION 24 asks the supreme court to order some official (usually a prison warden or jail supervisor) to come to a trial court and justify a prisoners imprisonment TERM 25 writ of certiorari DEFINITION 25 asks the supreme court to oder a lower court to send up the record of its proceedings for review