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23 Cards in this Set
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Administrative Law |
The body of law that regulates the activities and procedures of government agencies. |
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Case Law |
The law as established in previous court decisions; A synonym for legal precedent. |
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Commentaries on the Laws of England |
A treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone that heavily influenced the law of the early United States. |
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Common Law |
The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States, which relies on the articulation of legal principles in a historical succession of judicial decisions. |
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Criminal Law |
The body of law that defines crimes and the punishments that go with them. |
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Cybercrime |
Crimes conducted over the internet or other computer network. |
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Damages |
Money that a defendant pays a plaintiff in a civil case if the plaintiff has won. |
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Embezzlement |
Theft of an employer's property by an employee. |
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Felony |
A serious crime, usually punishable by at least one year in prison. |
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Hate Crime |
A crime motivated by racial or other prejudice; often violent. |
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Misdemeanor |
An offense punishable by one year of imprisonment (usually in a county jail) or less. |
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Ordinary Crime |
Crimes that are highly visible to the public; also called street crime. |
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Organized Crime |
A group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities. |
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Phishing |
Obtaining financial or other sensitive information from online account holders by posing as a legitimate business or organization. |
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Precedent |
A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court. |
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Procedural Criminal Law |
The body of law that controls how the various agents and elements of the criminal justice system treat people. |
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Reporter |
A series of books containing the written judicial opinions of a particular court. |
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Sir William Blackstone |
An English legal scholar who wrote the Commentaries on the Laws of England, a set of law books that had a major influence of the development of the criminal law in the United States. |
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Stare Decisis |
Legal Latin for "to stand by things decided;" the doctrine that rules of law established in past court cases should be followed in present ones. |
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Street Crime |
A broad term describing crimes that take place in public places. |
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Substantive Criminal Law |
The part of the criminal law that specifies prohibited acts and the punishments associated with those acts. |
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Tort |
A civil, not criminal, wrong. |
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Visible Crime |
Another name for street crime; offenses committed in public places.
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