2.9: CRJ OER CJ CH 3.1 Multiple Choice Questions (23)
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The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States, which relies on the articulation of legal principles in a historical succession of judicial decisions.
- Misdemeanor
- Case Law
- Common Law
- Sir William Blackstone
Crimes conducted over the internet or other computer network.
- Embezzlement
- Tort
- Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Cybercrime
The body of law that defines crimes and the punishments that go with them.
- Precedent
- Criminal Law
- Damages
- Tort
Crimes that are highly visible to the public; also called street crime.
- Ordinary Crime
- Stare Decisis
- Visible Crime
- Street Crime
A series of books containing the written judicial opinions of a particular court.
- Reporter
- Cybercrime
- Embezzlement
- Substantive Criminal Law
An English legal scholar who wrote the Commentaries on the Laws of England, a set of law books that had a major influence of the development of the criminal law in the United States.
- Sir William Blackstone
- Phishing
- Case Law
- Commentaries on the Laws of England
A serious crime, usually punishable by at least one year in prison.
- Felony
- Case Law
- Damages
- Street Crime
An offense punishable by one year of imprisonment (usually in a county jail) or less.
- Misdemeanor
- Damages
- Sir William Blackstone
- Cybercrime
Theft of an employer’s property by an employee.
- Case Law
- Hate Crime
- Embezzlement
- Substantive Criminal Law
A crime motivated by racial or other prejudice; often violent.
- Case Law
- Reporter
- Hate Crime
- Common Law
A group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities.
- Criminal Law
- Precedent
- Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Organized Crime
Obtaining financial or other sensitive information from online account holders by posing as a legitimate business or organization.
- Case Law
- Stare Decisis
- Criminal Law
- Phishing
A treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone that heavily influenced the law of the early United States.
- Sir William Blackstone
- Precedent
- Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Case Law
The body of law that controls how the various agents and elements of the criminal justice system treat people.
- Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Hate Crime
- Street Crime
- Procedural Criminal Law
Another name for street crime; offenses committed in public places.
- Cybercrime
- Ordinary Crime
- Visible Crime
- Embezzlement
The part of the criminal law that specifies prohibited acts and the punishments associated with those acts.
- Misdemeanor
- Substantive Criminal Law
- Tort
- Felony
A civil, not criminal, wrong.
- Tort
- Common Law
- Phishing
- Procedural Criminal Law
Legal Latin for “to stand by things decided;” the doctrine that rules of law established in past court cases should be followed in present ones.
- Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Stare Decisis
- Precedent
- Organized Crime
A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.
- Tort
- Precedent
- Embezzlement
- Visible Crime
The law as established in previous court decisions; A synonym for legal precedent.
- Procedural Criminal Law
- Case Law
- Damages
- Organized Crime
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