Section: The Criminal Justice System

• Criminal Justice System

Section: Criminal Law and Crime

Broad aspects of crime and control

• Civil law

• Crime

• Criminal law

• Felony

• Misdemeanor

• Procedural law

• Property crime

• Public order crime

• Substantive law

• Victimology

• Violent crime

Measuring crime

• Dark figure of crime

• National Incident-Based Reporting System

• National Crime Victimization Survey

• Uniform Crime Reports

Elements of crime

• Aggravation

• Inchoate offense

• Mitigating factor

Criminal defenses

• Alibi

• Automatism

• Coercion

• Diminished responsibility

• Entrapment

• False confession

• Immunity

• Infancy

• Insanity

• Intoxication

• Necessity

• Provocation

• Self-defense

Section: Law Enforcement

Broad aspects of law enforcement

• Federal law enforcement in the United States

• Law Enforcement Agency

• Police

• Sheriffs in the United States

History of policing

• August Vollmer

• Community policing

• Political era (policing)

• Robert Peel

Enforcement laws and procedures

• Arrest

• Arrest warrant

• Consent search

• Fourth Amendment

• Fifth Amendment

• Fruit of the poisonous tree

• Graham v. Connor

• Interrogation

• Mapp v. Ohio

• No-knock warrant

• Probable cause

• Reasonable suspicion

• Search warrant

• Tennessee v. Garner

• Terry stop

• Terry v. Ohio

• Traffic stop

• Use of force

• Use of force continuum

Section: Courts

Broad aspects of courts

• Adversarial system

• General jurisdiction

• Limited jurisdiction

• Supreme court

Rights of the accused

• Double jeopardy

• Exclusionary rule

• Sixth Amendment to the United States

Pretrial

• Bail

• Indictment

• Recognizance

• Remand (detention)

Courtroom actors

• Bailiff

• Criminal defense lawyer

• Court reporter

• Expert witness

• Judge

• Jury

• Prosecutor

• Public defender

• Witness

Broad aspects of sentencing

• Appeal

• Custodial

• Discharge

• Eighth Amendment

• Electronic monitoring in the United States

• Fine (penalty)

• House arrest

• Mandatory

• Plea

• Sentencing guidelines

• Suspended sentence

• Three-strikes law

Broad aspects of punishment

• Deterrence

• Incapacitation (penology)

• Rehabilitation (penology)

• Retributive justice

Section: Corrections

Broad aspects of corrections

• Federal Bureau of Prisons

• Private prisons in the United States

Imprisonment

• Parole

• Prison

Capital Punishment

• Capital punishment in the United States

Community Corrections

• Boot camp

• Probation

• Halfway house

• House arrest