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Criminal Justice System Basics

The document outlines key concepts related to the criminal justice system, including probable cause, stop and frisk, and the burden of proof. It discusses various legal terms such as double jeopardy, restitution, and types of fees associated with legal services. Additionally, it addresses punishment theories like retribution and deterrence, as well as the roles of jails and prisons.

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Criminal Justice System Basics

The document outlines key concepts related to the criminal justice system, including probable cause, stop and frisk, and the burden of proof. It discusses various legal terms such as double jeopardy, restitution, and types of fees associated with legal services. Additionally, it addresses punishment theories like retribution and deterrence, as well as the roles of jails and prisons.

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1.

Probable cause

Right to give law informant to make arrests search or seizures

2. stop and frisk

With reasonable suspicion the police can stop a person and frisk
them

3. burden of proof

requirement to provide evidence

4. grand jury

The jury to see if the case has enough evidence to proceed

5. bench trail

6. arguments for and against play bargain

7. double jeopardy

Cant be tried for the same crime twice

8. order sequence, criminal is proceeded through the criminal justice


system

9. restitution

My be required to pay for whatever loss/injury was caused to


the victim

10. contingency fee


You pay only if you win a law suet
11. retainer fee

You pay for the services of a lawyer

12. Retribution
Punishment given as a kind of revenge of wronging
13. Deterrence
Is a punishment that will discourage other people from committing
the same crime

14. Incapacitation

The criminal is physically separated from the community to


protect the people

15. parole

The release of a convicted person from prison before his or her


entire sentence has been served

16. aggravated circumstances

Factors that suggest the dependent deserves a more severe


punishment

17. mitigating circumstances


Factors that suggest the dependent deserves a less severe
punishment

18. jail

re run by cities and counties/parishes

Detain people awaiting trial and to hold mental patients, drug


addicts, alcoholics, juvenile offenders, and felons on a
temporary basis before being transferred to other facilities

19. prison

Operated by federal or state governments

20. status offence

21. delinquent crime


22. preventative detention

23. deposition

24. US patriotic act

25. Department of Homeland Security

26. The protect America Act

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