Intro to Justice system 1

The scientific study of crime and our nation's response to crime via the creation of specific organizations and institutions to combat crime.

• Our nations inter-related institutions, which respond to crime, violence, and disorder
• -law
• -law enforcement
• -courts
• -correctionsl agencies

• People prefer order over chaos
• We are born with a drive to survive
• People are selfish creatures
• People are hedonistic: attracted to rewards
• People have a "self" and it influences out behavior
• 1. spirit
• 2. soul: psychological & social
• 3. body
• People have behavioral free will
• Behavior is influenced by one's values

• revolutionary war
• industrial revolution: people moved to cities from rural areas

• One interpretation of larceny
• Truck driver stole part of what he was transporting

Man hired a horse and sold it at a market

crimes that may not be necissarily wrong in themselves but are wrong simply because they have been prohibited by statute

the act is inherently evil or immoral in nature

dividing point can range between $50 to $2,500, depending where you are