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Social order

The condition of a society characterized by social integration, instances, smooth functioning, and lack of interpersonal and institutional conflict. Also, a lack of social disorganization.

Social disorganization

Make edition said to exist when a group is faced with social change, uneven development of culture, maladaptiveness , disharmony, conflict, and lack of consensus.

Crime

Contact in violation of the criminal laws of a state, the federal government, or the local jurisdiction, for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse.

Individual rights

He writes guaranteed to all members of the American society by the US Constitution (especially those rights found in the first ten amendments to Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights). These are particularly important to criminal defendants facing formal processing by the criminal justice system.

Individual rights advocate

One who seeks to protect personal freedoms within the process of criminal justice.

Public order advocate

One who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public safety, the actress of society should take precedence over individual rights.

Justice

The principle of fairness; the ideal of moral equality.

Social justice

An ideal that embraces all aspects of civilized life and that is linked to fundamental notions of fairness and to cultural beliefs about right and wrong.

Civil justice

The civil law, the law of Civil Procedure, in the array of procedures and activities having to do with private rights and remedies sought by civil action. Civil justice cannot be separated from social justice because the justice enacted in our nation's civil courts reflex basic American understanding of right and wrong.

Criminal justice

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 law. Criminal justice cannot be separated from social justice because of the justice and acted by your nation's criminal courts reflects basic American understandings of right and wrong.

Administration of justice

The performance of any of the following activities: detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial release, post-trial release, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision, or rehabilitation of accused persons or criminal offenders.

Criminal justice system

The aggregate of all operating and administrative or technical support agencies that perform criminal justice functions. The basic divisions of operational aspects of criminal justice system or law enforcement, courts, and corrections.

Consensus model

A criminal justice perspective that assumes that the system components work together harmoniously to achieve the social product we call justice.

Conflict model

A criminal justice perspective that assumes that the system components function primarily to serve their own interest. According to the theoretical framework, justice is more of a product of conflicts among agencies within the system that it is the result of cooperation among component agencies.

Due process

A right guaranteed by the 5th, 6th, and 14th amendments of the US Constitution and generally understood, in legal context, 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 defending the offense, impartial tribunal having jurisdiction authority over the case, accusation and proper form, notice an opportunity to defend, trial according to the established procedure, and discharge from all restraints or obligations unless convicted.

Crime control model

a criminal justice prospective that emphasizes the efficient arrest and conviction of criminal offenders.

Due process model

A criminal justice perspective emphasizes individual rights at all stages of justice system processing.

Social order

The use of sanctions and rewards within a group to influence and shape the behavior of individual members of that group. Social control is a primary concern of social groups and communities, and it is there interest in the exercise of social control that leads to the creation of both criminal and civil statute

Evidence based practice

Prime fighting strategies that have been scientifically tested and that are based on social science research.

Criminology

The scientific study of the causes and prevention of crime and rehabilitation and punishment of offenders.

Multiculturalism

The existence within one society of diverse groups at maintaini cultural identities while frequently accepting and participating in the larger society legal and political system. Multiculturalism is often used in conjunction with the term diversity so I didn't find any distinction of social significance.