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Tuesday 1 November 2011

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.





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