Criminal Justice Exam

A written body of general rules of conduct applicable to all members of a society or community. To maintain order...fairness

Crime/Criminal, cops, court, correction

Civil law is a common law regulatiing private parties and criminal law is law that regulates conduct and provides penalities

Consists of six componets. Something that the individuals share

Ideas we have about how the world operates and what is true and false

Standards shared by the culture about what is good and bad, correct and incorrect..etc

The action componet of a value or belief

More serious norms Ex. Violation and punishment

Less serious norms Ex. Habit

Concrete physical signs that "stand for"

The knowledge and techniques a person creates of their comfort

A vast repository of imformation about culture. The "storehouse" of culture

Positive: Man made, created law Postivits draw a distinciton between law and morality Natural: Law that comes from "above" Believers view is as standing above placing limits on what is permissible in p. law

1. Invent and refinement- dna fingerprinting 2. Technology in the media-televise hearings 3. New Technology- Surgical and chemical cures

Natural Law but Postivie law perspective Theory of forms Socratic Method