Schmalleger- chapter 1
Evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔✔Crime-fighting strategies that have been scientifically
tested and are based on social science research.
Due-process model - correct answer ✔✔A criminal justice perspective that emphasizes individual rights
at all stages of justice system processing.
Due-process - correct answer ✔✔A right guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments of
the U.S. Constitution and generally understood, in legal contexts, to mean the due course of legal
proceedings according to the rules and forms established for the protection of individual rights. In
criminal proceedings, due process of law is generally understood to include the following basic elements:
a law creating and defining the offense, an impartial tribunal having jurisdictional authority over the
case, accusation in proper form, notice and opportunity to defend, trial according to established
procedure, and discharge from all restraints or obligations unless convicted.
Individual Rights - correct answer ✔✔The rights guaranteed to all members of American society by the
U.S. Constitution (especially those rights found in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known
as the Bill of Rights). These rights are particularly important to criminal defendants facing formal
processing by the criminal justice system.
Individual-rights advocate - correct answer ✔✔One who seeks to protect personal freedoms within the
process of criminal justice.
Criminology - correct answer ✔✔The scientific study of the causes and prevention of crime and the
rehabilitation and punishment of offenders.
Criminal justice system - correct answer ✔✔The aggregate of all operating and administrative or
technical support agencies that perform criminal justice functions. The basic divisions of the operational
aspects of criminal justice are law enforcement, courts, and corrections.
Criminal Justice - correct answer ✔✔In the strictest sense, the criminal (penal) law, the law of criminal
procedure, and the array of procedures and activities having to do with the enforcement of this body of
Evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔✔Crime-fighting strategies that have been scientifically
tested and are based on social science research.
Due-process model - correct answer ✔✔A criminal justice perspective that emphasizes individual rights
at all stages of justice system processing.
Due-process - correct answer ✔✔A right guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments of
the U.S. Constitution and generally understood, in legal contexts, to mean the due course of legal
proceedings according to the rules and forms established for the protection of individual rights. In
criminal proceedings, due process of law is generally understood to include the following basic elements:
a law creating and defining the offense, an impartial tribunal having jurisdictional authority over the
case, accusation in proper form, notice and opportunity to defend, trial according to established
procedure, and discharge from all restraints or obligations unless convicted.
Individual Rights - correct answer ✔✔The rights guaranteed to all members of American society by the
U.S. Constitution (especially those rights found in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known
as the Bill of Rights). These rights are particularly important to criminal defendants facing formal
processing by the criminal justice system.
Individual-rights advocate - correct answer ✔✔One who seeks to protect personal freedoms within the
process of criminal justice.
Criminology - correct answer ✔✔The scientific study of the causes and prevention of crime and the
rehabilitation and punishment of offenders.
Criminal justice system - correct answer ✔✔The aggregate of all operating and administrative or
technical support agencies that perform criminal justice functions. The basic divisions of the operational
aspects of criminal justice are law enforcement, courts, and corrections.
Criminal Justice - correct answer ✔✔In the strictest sense, the criminal (penal) law, the law of criminal
procedure, and the array of procedures and activities having to do with the enforcement of this body of
