Criminal Justice System Overview

____________ is the means for society to enforce the standards of conduct necessary to protect individuals and the community from the activities of undesirable members of the society.

The criminal justice system consists of ______ law enforcement (police), courts, prosecutors, defense attorneys and corrections.

Criminal justice agencies are intended to operate within the ________.

The first police force comparable to the present-day police was established in __________ France.

The __________ serve as the venue where disputes are settled and justice is administered.

The __________ is the lawyer who brings charges against an individual or corporation.

The __________ is the complaining party in civil proceedings.

These include ______ the judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney.

_____ cases are usually decided upon by a judge, rather than by a jury.

The most publicly visible form of correction or punishment in the modern era for juveniles is the _____ or prison.

Crime and delinquency is a disruptive issue in the affairs of mankind, and measurement of crime and delinquency is usually _____ in nature.

_____ attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime and delinquency in societies.

A person who commits murder is called a _________

The term _____ meaning a woman, who murders

___________ is a defense which serves to negate the mental state of 'malice'.

___________ is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.

Constructive manslaughter is also referred to as _____ manslaughter.

___________ is the intentional killing of oneself.

In criminal law, __________ is an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with another person without that person's consent.

__________ is the crime of threatening to reveal substantially true information about a person to the public unless a demand made upon the victim is met.

___________ is the process of recycling large amounts of money obtained from crimes such as political corruption, embezzlement or drug trafficking.

Grievous bodily harm is often abbreviated to _____

Grievous bodily harm is synonymous with offences created by sections 18 and 20 of the Offences against the _____ Act 1861.

_____ is a crime of violence against another person.

_____ is often defined to include any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent.

Assault is defined by section _____ of that Criminal Code Act.

_____ is the crime that represents the unlawful physical contact.

Exceptions exist for unsolicited physical contact which amounts to normal social behavior known as _____ harm.

At common law, criminal _____ was an attempted battery.

_____ means merely apprehension - awareness rather than any emotional state.

_____ is the use of force against another, resulting in harmful or offensive contact.

Criminal battery is also referred to as _____

_____ was defined at common law as 'any unlawful touching of the person of another by the aggressor himself, or by a substance put in motion by him.'

Battery is typically classified as either _____ or aggravated.

Under modern statutory schemes, _____ is often divided into grades that determine the severity of punishment.

_____ battery may include any form of non-consensual harmful or insulting contact regardless of the injury caused.

_____ battery requires an intent to inflict an injury on another as distinguished from a tortuous battery.

_____ may be defined as non-consensual touching of the intimate parts of another.

_____ generally is seen as a serious offense of felony grade, involving the loss of the victim's limb or some other type of permanent disfigurement.

_____ is an attempted battery or the act of intentionally placing a person in apprehension of a harmful or offensive contact with his or her person.

When a child stays off school without the knowledge and agreement of parents it is called _______.