Question: What is the theme of this book?

Answer: Individual Rights vs. Public Order.

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Question: According to that theme, what are the differences between the individual-rights perspective and the public-order perspective?

Answer: Individual rights perspective is the maintenance of individual rights throughout the criminal justice system. The public order perspective puts societal rights above individual rights.

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Question: How can evidence-based strategies help to meet the goals of both individual-rights and public-order advocates?

Answer: Evidence-based strategies help meet the goals of both sides by making trials and such efficient and cost-effective.

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Question: What is justice?

Answer: principle of fairness; the ideal of moral equity.

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Question: What aspects of justice does this chapter discuss?

Answer: This chapter discusses justice, social justice, civil justice, criminal justice, and administration of justice.

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Question: How does criminal justice relate to other, wider notions of equity and fairness?

Answer: Criminal justice relates to social justice because it deals with laws and when they’re broken.

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Question: What are the main components of the criminal justice system?

Answer: The main components of the Criminal Justice System are police, courts, and corrections.

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Question: How do the three components interrelate?

Answer: They are all connected throughout the justice process. The police are usually the first contact with a criminal or accused criminal. Then the court system decides their punishment or if guilty. The corrections carry out the punishment.

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Question: How do the three components conflict?

Answer: The three may not agree with another’s decisions and end in a misunderstanding.

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Question: List the stages of case processing that characterize the American system of criminal justice, describe each stage.

Answer: The stages of processing that characterize the American system of criminal justice are an investigation, warrant, arrest, booking, first appearance, preliminary hearing, information or indictment, arraignment, adjudication, sentencing, corrections, and reentry.

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Question: What is meant by due process of law?

Answer: Due process is meant to withhold fairness through a judicial procedure. Specifically, it recognizes the rights of an accused criminal.

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Question: Where in the American legal system are guarantees of due process found?

Answer: Guarantees of due process are found in the Constitution in the first ten amendments.

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Question: What is the role of research in criminal justice?

Answer: Scientific research has become common through the criminal justice system to find reliable evidence.

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Question: What is evidence-based practice?

Answer: Evidence-based practice is crime-fighting strategies that have been tested on a social science basis.

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Question: How can research influence crime-control policy?

Answer: Research sets the facts of a case but does not take much about the defendant into consideration like the crime-control policy.

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Question: What is multiculturalism?

Answer: A community with many races, cultures, etc.

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Question: What is social diversity?

Answer: A variety of beliefs, cultures, and more in a society.

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Question: What impact do multiculturalism and diversity have on the practice of criminal justice in contemporary American society?

Answer: Police, courts, and corrections have to take peoples beliefs, customs, and mainly home life into consideration.

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Question: This chapter describes two models of the criminal justice system. What are they and how do they differ?

Answer: The two different models of the criminal justice system are Crime-Control and Due Process. Crime-control focuses on the rights of society as a whole, whereas due process focuses on the right of the defendant.

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Question: 5 steps of Booking

Answer: 1. picture taken

2. fingerprinted

3.personal info gathered (address, date, dob, height, weight)

4. details of charges are recorded

5. advised of rights (miranda rights)

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