At what levels are enormous amounts of money spent on in criminal justice

Harm, legality, actus reus, mens rea, causation, concurrence, punishment

An assumption (or set of assumptions) that attempts to explain why or how things are related to each other.

In 2012, he walked out of Lousiana's Angola Prison finally free after 15 years thanks to DNA investigation.

A formal or official change made to a law, contract, constitution, or other legal document. It is based on the verb to amend, which means to change. Amendments can add, remove, or update parts of these agreements

Beliefs based on emotion rather than analysis

A measure of the incidence of crime expressed as the number of crimes per unit of population or some other base

A theory that is a product of the enlightenment, based on the assumption that people exercise free will and are thus completely responsible for their actions.

Makes the victim "whole again" by having the state pay for damages to victim.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly

A politically defined geographical area

Murder/ non negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, arson

The prevention of individuals from committing crime again and punishing them

They were first created about 5,000 years ago in emergence with institutions of property, marriage, and government.

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public da

Less serious crimes generally punishable by a fine or by incarceration in jail for not more than 1 year

An act that is illegal for a juvenile but would not be a crime if committed by an adult

The prevention of people in 'general' or society at large from engaging in crime by punishing specific individuals and making examples of them

Common law is based off ideas from what great English charter.

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to

Serious offenses punishable by confinement in prison for more than 1 year or by death

Did not know the nature or quality of the act or did not know the act was wrong

The explanation of criminal behavior, as well as the behavior of police, attorneys, prosecutors, judges, correctional personnel, victims, and other actors in the criminal justice process

Ideas characteristics of this include politically, specificity, regularity, uniformity, and penal sanction.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted