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Juvinile equivilant of arrest, charge, trial, sentence |
Take into custody, petition, adjudication, disposition |
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Purpose of Juvenile Justice System |
To de-stigmitize |
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Peak Juvenile Violent Crime Time |
Right after school |
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Becker |
Symbolic Interactionism: Labeling Theory |
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Social Disorganization Theory |
Structural Functionalism sub-theory; disorganized communities have more crime |
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Andrew Cho |
Looked at Seattle ID, found that even though traditional measures of social organization seemed low, crime was low because people felt they were part of a community |
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Facially Race Neutral Policy |
A policy that does not reference race but disproportionately effects a specific race |
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Determinate Sentencing |
Sentencing based on previous offences and convicted crime, much less discretion given to judges/prosecuters than intermediate sentencing |
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Three Strikes Legislation |
If a person has two prior previous convictions in state/federal court, one of which was a violent felony, and is convicted of an additional violent felony, they are sentenced to life in prison. |
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Bruce Western |
Found that wages of ex-convicts deteriorate --not grow-- over time |
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LFO definition |
Legal Financial Obligations |
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Kohler Housmann |
Conflict theorist; claims that low level courts (misdemeanor) kick underclass down |
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Sampson and Laub |
Conflict Theorists; Minority Threat sub-theory. Explained that minorities are treated punitively by majority through unequal treatment in JJS |
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Devah Pager |
Symbolic Interactionist theorist; looked at how race and non violent drug charges impacted disirability to employers |
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Alexis Harris |
Conflict theory: Observed that monetary sanctions are a punishment for being poor. |
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Who developed the strategy to criminalize anti-war and black rights activists? |
Nixon and Regan |
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Best perspective for intended and unintended consequences of CJS |
Structural Functionalism |
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Million Dollar Blocks |
Census blocks with enough people imprisoned to cost the state $1 million |
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Matsueda and Crutchfield |
Structural Functionalism; connected collective efficacy to crime in seattle |
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Status Offenses |
Legal offenses only applicable to children |
