Introductory Vocabulary

Perspective: the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one

Point of View: an opinion, attitude, or judgment

Quality of Life:
your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort); "the new art museum is expected to improve the quality of life"

Governance: a method or system of government or management.

Political System:
the members of a social organization who are in power.

executive branch:
the branch of government charged with the execution and enforcement of laws and policies and the administration of public affairs.

legislative branch:
The branch of the federal and state government empowered to make the laws that are then enforced by the executive branch and interpreted by the judicial branch.

judicial branch:
The court systems of local, state, and federal governments, responsible for interpreting the laws passed by the legislative branch and enforced by the executive branch.

constituent:  having power to frame or alter a political constitution or fundamental law, as distinguished from lawmaking power

minorities:  a smaller party or group opposed to a majority, as in voting or other action.

accountable: subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something.

bias: a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question.

Issue: a point in question or a matter that is in dispute, as between contending parties in an action at law.

Chapter Two - Criminal Justice Vocabulary

Fair/ Equitable:   

characterized by equity or fairness; just and right; fair; reasonable: equitable treatment of all citizens.

Justice System: justice system consists of three main parts: (1) Legislative (create laws); (2) adjudication (courts); and (3) corrections (jails, prisons, probation and parole). In a criminal justice system, these distinct agencies operate together both under the rule of law and as the principal means of maintaining the rule of law within society.

 

Criminal record:

a  list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the prostitute had a record a mile long"

 

Justice: the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause.

Legislation: the act of making or enacting laws.

 

Validity: 

the state or quality of being valid: to question the validity of the argument.

Community Service:

a punitive sentence that requires a convicted person to perform unpaid work for the communityin lieu of imprisonment.

Sentence; an authoritative decision; a judicial judgment or decree, especially the judicial determination of the punishment to be inflicted on a convicted criminal.

Rehabilitation:

to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.

Reintegration: 
the process of returning the mind to an integrated state after it has been deranged by psychosis.