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CJU: Ch 4 Vocab
CriminalJustice
Question | Answer |
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Barron v. Baltimore (1833) | The protections of the Bill of Rights apply only to actions of the federal government. |
B frankpledge | A system in old English law in which members of a tithing (a group of ten families) pledged to be responsible for keeping order and bringing violators of the law to court. |
Law Enforcement | The police function of controlling crime by intervening in situations in which the law has clearly been violated and the police need to identify and apprehend the guilty person. |
Order maintenance | The police function of preventing behavior that disturbs or threatens to disturb the public peace or that involves face-to-face conflict among two or more people. In such situations the police exercise discretion in deciding whether a law has been broken. |
Service | The police function of providing assistance to the public, usually in matters unrelated to crime. |