List of basic criminal justice topics
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Criminal justice refers to the system used by government to maintain social control, enforce laws, and administer justice. Law enforcement (police), courts, and corrections are the primary agencies charged with these responsibilities. See the general list of legal topics regarding any legal topics outside of the area of criminal justice. Basic topics in criminal justice include:
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[edit] Nature of criminal justice
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[edit] Branches of criminal justice
[edit] History of criminal justice
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[edit] Basic criminal justice concepts
Abuse defense -- Actus reus -- Administrative law -- Affray -- Arraignment -- Arrest warrant -- Arson -- Assault -- Attendant circumstances
Bail -- Bias crime -- Booking -- Burglary
Case law -- Causation -- Chain of custody -- Citizen's arrest -- civil law -- Clearance rate -- Common law -- Concurrence -- Concurrent sentence -- Conflict model -- Consecutive sentence -- Consensus model -- Corpus delicti -- Corrections -- Creative lawyering -- Crime -- Crime control -- Crime index -- Criminal justice -- Criminology
Death penalty -- Defense (legal) -- Defense of property -- Denial of a speedy trial -- Deterrence -- Diminished responsibility -- Diminished responsibility in English law -- Double jeopardy -- Due process
Elder abuse -- Embezzlement -- Entrapment -- Espionage -- Evidentiary hearing -- Excuse -- Execution warrant --
Felony -- Forgery -- Fear of crime
Ignorance of the law -- Inchoate offense -- Indictable offence -- Indictment -- Individual rights -- Infraction -- Innovative defense -- Insanity defense -- Islamic law
Jurisprudence -- Jury instructions -- Jury nullification -- Jury trial -- Justice -- Justification
Mafia -- Manslaughter -- Manslaughter in English law -- M'Naghten Rules -- Mens rea -- Miranda Warning -- Misdemeanor -- Mistake -- Motive -- Motor vehicle theft -- Murder -- Murder in English law
Obscenity -- Offense -- Organized crime
Pardon -- Penal law -- Peremptory pleas -- Perjury -- Plea bargain -- Precedent -- Predator -- Preliminary hearing -- Prescription -- Probable cause -- Probation -- Procedural defense -- Prosecutorial misconduct -- Prostitution -- Provocation -- Provocation in English law Public order
Rape -- Resisting unlawful arrest -- Robbery
Selective prosecution -- Self defense and defense of others -- Sentence -- Sharia -- Shoplifting -- Social control -- Stare decisis -- Star Chamber -- Statutory law -- Suicide -- Summary offence
Terrorism -- Theft -- Treason -- Trespass -- Trial -- Trial by jury -- Trial de novo
War crime -- Warrant -- Writ -- Writ of Habeas Corpus
[edit] Criminal justice scholars
[edit] Leaders in criminal justice
[edit] Criminal justice lists
- Main article: List of criminal justice topics
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