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Criminal Justice Process:
Arrest
Classical criminology
Conflict model
Consensus model
Crime
Crime control model
Criminology
Discretion
Due process model
Federalism
Felony
Index crimes
Indictment
Misdemeanor
National Crime Victimization Survey
National Incident-Based Reporting System
Occupational crime
Organized crime
Political crime
Property crime
Public order crime
Terrorism
Uniform Crime Reports
Victimology
Violent crime
Wedding cake model
White-collar crime
Canadian Journal of Criminology; search this journal using the PowerTrac feature
Criminology; search this journal using the PowerTrac feature
Criminal Justice Ethics; search this journal using the PowerTrac feature

Criminal Law:
Actus Reus
Administrative law
Bill of Rights
Case law
Civil Law
Constitutional law
Due process clause
Duress
Durham rule
Entrapment
Insanity
Intoxication
Irresistible impulse test
M’Naughten Rule
Mala prohibita
Mens rea
Negligence
Precedent
Procedural criminal law
Self-defense
Statutory law
Strict liability
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; search this journal using the PowerTrac feature
Law Review; search this journal using the PowerTrac feature

Police: Agents of Law and Order:
Arrest
Arrest warrant
Booking
Broken windows theory
Citizen oversight
Coroner
Community policing
Crime scene
Detective
Domestic violence
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Forensics
Internal affairs unit
Justice of The Peace
Miranda rights
Moonlighting
Patronage system
Police corruption
Police subculture
Private security
Problem-solving policing
Professional model
Search and seizure
Search warrant
Sheriff
Shire-reeve
Sworn officers
Tithing system
Warrantless arrest
Watch system
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin; search this journal using the PowerTrac feature

Courts:
Adversary system
Appeal
Arraignment
Assigned counsel
Bail
Circumstantial evidence
Citation
Defense attorney
Direct evidence
Docket
Double jeopardy
Judicial misconduct
Jury
Motion
Plea bargaining
Preventive detention
Probable cause
Prosecuting attorney
Public defender
Real evidence
Release on recognizance
Verdict
Workgroup

The Correctional Process:
Correctional funnel
Corrections
Court intervention in prison operations
Discretionary authority
Drug courts
Gatekeeper function
Hands-off doctrine
Local corrections
Penology
Police role in corrections
Prison overcrowding
Probation without adjudication
Corrections Today; search this journal using the PowerTrac feature

Sentencing: Imposing Correctional Sanctions:
Chronic offenders
Day fines
Determinate or Indeterminate sentences
Deterrence
Good time
Incapacitation
Incarceration
Just deserts
Mandatory sentences
Probation
Rational choice theory
Reformation
Rehabilitation
Reintegration
Sentencing guidelines
Three strikes laws
Truth-in-sentencing laws

The Death Penalty: The Ultimate Sanction:
Abolitionists
Aggravating factors
Brutalizing effect
Death qualification
Flawed executions
Ford v. Wainwright
Furman-committee
Furman v. Georgia
Gregg v. Georgia
McCleskey v. Kemp
Mitigating factors
Penry v. Lynaugh
Retentionists
Thompson v. Oklahoma
Victims known as survivors

Prisons and Jails:
Booking process
Campus-style facilities
Deinstitutionalization
Design capacity
Detoxification center
Gaol
Intake process
Jail diversion programs
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
Linear design supervision
Regional jails
Video mug shots
Congregate system
Consolidation
Dispersion
Lockdown
Maximum-security prison
Penitentiary
Pretrial detainees
Private prisons
Time served
Warden
Prison Journal; search this journal using the PowerTrac feature

The Development of Prisons In The United States:
Alexander Maconochie
Auburn system
Declaration of principles
Eastern Penitentiary at Cherry Hill
Elmira reformatory
Inside cell block design
Irish system
Lockstep
Mark system
National Prison Association
Pennsylvania system
Ticket of leave
Walnut Street Jail
Walter Crofton, Sir
Zebulon T. Brockway

Classification, Custody, and Special Category Offenders:
Administrative facility
Administrative segregation
Career criminals
Classification committee
Community custody
Cottage industries
Criminally insane
Custody levels
Disciplinary detention
High, medium or low-security institution
In-or-out custody
Long-term offenders
Mainstreaming
Management variables
Mature offenders
Maximum custody
Mentally disordered
Mentally handicapped
Minimum security institution
Objective classification systems
Organic disorders
Overclassification or underclassification
Protective custody
Psychotic disorders
Reception and diagnostic centers
Reclassification
Security
Special management
Supermax
Youthful offender

The Female Offender In Prison and In The Community:
Co-corrections
Cottage plan
Disparity
Elizabeth Fry
Juice
Matron
Mix
Organizational smarts
Parity
Prison smarts
Pseudo families
Sexual misconduct

The Contemporary Prison: Beginning the 21st Century
Black rage
Catchers
Contraband
Convicts
Convict code
Ethnic/racial organizations
Homeboy orientation
Hustling
Independents
Inmate credit cards
Pluralistic prison environment
Prop friendships
Religious organizations
Script
Special interest organizations
State-raised youths
Sub-rosa inmate economy
Withdrawal

Correctional Administration:
Authoritarian model
Bureaucratic model
Executive management team
First-line supervisors
Line personnel
Management by walking around
Micromanagement
Middle managers
Organizational culture
Participative model
Proactive or reactive manager
Superintendents
Unit management

Security Threat Groups and Inmate Gangs:
Aryan brotherhood
Associate members
Black guerilla family
Bloods
Crips
Disruptive groups
General members
Hard-core members
Hierarchical model
La Nuestra Familia
Mexican mafia
Paramilitary model
Peripheral members
Potential members
Security threat groups or individuals
Steering committee model
Strategic or tactical intelligence
Suspected members
Sympathizers
Texas syndicate
Validated members
Wanna-be’s

Custodial Personnel:
Bona fide occupational qualifications
Cross-gender searches
Cultural diversity
In-service training
Job bidding
Occupational stressors
On-the-job training
Preservice training
Sexual safety
Structured conflict
Veteran’s preference system
Working ideologies

History of Prisoners’ Rights, Court Access, and Remedies:
Civil Rights Act of 1871
Contempt of court
Court deference era
Due process clause
Habeas corpus
Hands-off or hands-on doctrine
Injunction
Jailhouse lawyers
Legitimate correctional objectives
Prisoner Litigation Reform Act
Section 1983, Civil Rights Act

Prisoners’ Constitutional, Substantive, and Procedural Rights:
Clear and present danger
Conditions of confinement
Cruel and unusual punishment
Deadly force
Electronic shocking devices
Empty hand control techniques
Liberty interests
Publisher-only rule
Restraints
Verbal direction

Basic Prison Programs: Educational, Work, and Recreational:

Adult basic education
Ashurst-Summers Act of 1935
Contract system
Functionally illiterate
Generic Equivalency Diploma (GED)
Haws-Cooper Act of 1929
Hilton Hotel syndrome
Leisure education model
Peer tutoring
Principle of least eligibility
Prison industry enhancement certification program
Prohibitory Act of 1940
Project bio
State or public account system
Value clarification
Walsh-Healy Act of 1936

Basic Prison Services: Health, Treatment, Food, and Religion:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Behavioral contracting
Behavior modification
Bona fide religious belief
Clinical pastoral educational movement
Cognitive approach
Co-occurring disorders
Cook/chill method
Cycle menu
Decentralized dining
Deliberate indifference
Hepatitis C (HVC)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Imams
Kairos prison ministry
Multiple drug-resistant TB strains
Muslim community
Nation of Islam
National commission on correctional health care
Prison fellowship
Reasonableness test
Shadow board
Special diets
Telemedicine
Therapeutic community treatment model
Token economies
Tuberculosis

Probation:
Appointment system
Benefit of clergy
Caseworker model
Control conditions
John Augustus
Judicial reprieve
Law enforcement model
Merit system
Presentence investigation report
Recognizance
Resource broker/advocate model
Revocation
Risk prediction scales
Treatment conditions
Federal Probation; search this journal using the PowerTrac feature

Intermediate Sanctions: Getting Tough In The Community:
Boot camps
Community service orders
Continuous signaling devices
Day reporting centers
Electronic monitoring
Halfway house
House arrest/home confinement
Huber Act
Net widening
Programmed contact devices
Shock incarceration
Study release
Work release
Tracking devices

Visitation, Parole, and Sex Offenders:
Broad community notification
Civil commitment laws
Conjugal visits
Consolidated model
Contact visits
Demoralization
Discretionary parole
Dismemberment
Furloughs
Independent model
Mandatory release
Parenting programs
Strip searches
Visitation

The Juvenile Justice System:
Breed v. Jones
Delinquent
Dependent child
Detention hearing
Diversion
Fare v. Michael
In re Gault
In re Winship
Neglected child
Parens patriae
Schall v. Martin
Status offense
Waive

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