Identify the authority and relationships of the main criminal justice agencies, and understand the steps in the decision-making process for criminal cases.

1.3.5

Depth 2

Describe the criminal justice "wedding cake" concept.

1.3.6

Depth 2

Discuss the possible causes of racial disparities in criminal justice.

1.4.1

Depth 2

Describe the bases and sources of American criminal law.

1.4.2

Depth 2

Discuss how substantive criminal law defines a crime and the legal responsibility of the accused.

1.4.3

Depth 2

Describe how procedural criminal law defines the rights of the accused and the process for dealing with a case.

1.4.4

Depth 2

Analyze the United States Supreme Court's role in interpreting the criminal justice amendements to the Constitution.

2.5.1

Depth 2

Describe how policing evolved in the United States.

2.5.2

Depth 2

Discuss the main types of police agencies.

2.5.3

Depth 2

Analyze the functions of the police.

2.5.4

Depth 2

Describe how the police are organized.

2.5.5

Depth 2

Analyze influences on police policy and styles of policing.

2.5.6

Depth 2

Discuss how police officers balance actions, decision making, and discretion.

2.5.7

Depth 2

Describe the importance of connections between the police and the community.

2.6.1

Depth 2

Discuss why people become police officers and how they learn to do their jobs.

2.6.2

Depth 2

Describe the elements of the police officer's "working personality."

2.6.3.

Depth 2

Analyze the factors that affect police response.

2.6.4

Depth 2

Describe the main functions of police patrol, investigation, and special operations units.

2.6.5

Depth 2

Analyze patrol strategies that police departments employ.

2.7.1

Depth 2

Describe the new technologies that facilitate crime, assist police investigations, and affect citizens' rights.

2.7.2

Depth 2

Discuss the issues and problems that emerge from law enforcement agencies' increased attention to homeland security.

2.7.3

Depth 2

Analyze the policing and related activities undertaken by private-sector security management.

2.7.4

Depth 2

Discuss the ways police can abuse their power and the challenges of controlling this abuse.

2.7.5

Depth 2

Identify the methods that can be used to make police more accountable to citizens.

2.8.1

Depth 2

Know the extent of police officers' authority to stop and search people and their vehicles.

2.8.2

Depth 2

Understand when and how police officers seek warrants in order to conduct searches and make arrests.

2.8.3

Depth 2

Know whether police officers can look in people's windows or their backyards to see if evidence of a crime exists there.

2.8.4

Depth 2

Analyze the situtations in which police officers can conduct searches without obtaining a warrant.

2.8.5

Depth 2

Understand the purpose of the privilege against compelled self-incrimination.

2.8.6

Depth 2

Understand the exclusionary rule and the situations in which it applies.

3.9.1

Depth 2

Describe the structure of the American court system.

3.9.2

Depth 2

Analyze the qualities that we desire in a judge.

3.9.3

Depth 2

Identify the ways that American judges are selected.`

3.9.4

Depth 2

Describe the pretrial process in criminal cases.

3.9.5

Depth 2

Describe the pretrial process in criminal cases.

3.9.6

Depth 2

Analyze the context of pretrial detention.

3.10.1

Depth 2

Describe the roles of the prosecuting attorney.

3.10.2

Depth 2

Analyze the process by which criminal charges are files, and what role the prosecutor's discretion plays in that process.

3.10.3

Depth 2

Identify the other actors in the system with whom the prosecutor interacts during the decision-making process.

3.10.4

Depth 2

Discuss the day-to-day reality of criminal defense work in the United States.

3.10.5

Depth 2

Describe how counsel is provided for defendants who cannot afford a private attorney.

3.10.6

Depth 2

Analyze the defense attorney's role in the system and the nature of the attorney-client relationship.

3.11.1

Depth 2

Describe the courtroom workgroup and how it functions.

3.11.2

Depth 2

Discuss how and why plea bargaining occurs.

3.11.3

Depth 2

Analyze why few cases go to trial and how jurors are chosen.

3.11.4

Depth 2

Identify the stages of a criminal trial.

3.11.5

Depth 2

Describe the basis for an appeal of a conviction.

3.12.1

Depth 2

Describe the goals of punishment.

3.12.2

Depth 2

Identify the types of sentences that judges can impose.

3.12.3

Depth 2

Discuss what really happens in sentencing.

3.12.4

Depth 2

Analyze whether the system treats wrongdoers equally.

4.13.1

Depth 2

Describe how the American system of corrections has developed.

4.13.2

Depth 2

Analyze the roles federal, state, and local governments play in corrections.

4.13.3

Depth 2

Discuss the law of corrections and how it is applied to offenders and correctional personnel.

4.13.4

Depth 2

Describe the direction of community corrections.

4.13.5

Depth 2

Explain why the prison population has more than quadrupled over the last three decades.

4.14.1

Depth 2

Explain why the prison population has more than quadrupled over the last three decades.

4.14.2

Depth 2

Discuss how probation evolved and how probation sentences are implemented today.

4.14.3

Depth 2

Describe the types of intermediate sanctions and how they are administered.

4.14.4

Depth 2

Analyze the key issues facing community corrections at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

4.15.1

Depth 2

Describe the three models of incarceration that have predominated since the 1940s.

4.15.2

Depth 2

Discuss how a prison is organized.

4.15.3

Depth 2

Analyze how a prison is governed.

4.15.4

Depth 2

Describe the role of correctional officers in a prison.

4.15.5

Depth 2

Discuss what it is like to be in a prison.

4.15.6

Depth 2

Analyze the special needs and problems of incarcerated women.

4.15.7

Depth 2

Describe the programs and services that are available to prisoners.

4.15.8

Depth 2

Discuss the nature of prison violence.

4.16.1

Depth 2

Describe the nature of the "reentry problem."

4.16.2

Depth 2

Discuss the origins of parole and the way it operates today.

4.16.3

Depth 2

Analyze the mechanisms for the release of felons to the community.

4.16.4

Depth 2

Describe the problem parolees face during their reentry.

4.16.5

Depth 2

Discuss how ex-prisoners are supervised in the community.

4.16.6

Depth 2

Analyze how civil disabilities block successful reentry.

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Source document: The American System of Criminal Justice, 16th edition
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