One who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual rights
The performance of any of the following activities: detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial release, post-trial release, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision, or rehabilitation of accused persons or criminal offenders
One who seeks to protect personal freedoms within the process of criminal justice
A law enforcement or correctional administrative process officially recording an entry into detention after arrest and identifying the person, the place, the time, the reason for the arrest, and the arresting authority
The principle of fairness, the ideal of moral equity
In criminal proceedings, a writ issued by a judicial officer directing a law enforcement officer to perform a specified act and affording the officer protection from damages if he or she performs it
A formal written accusation submitted to a court by a prosecutor alleging that a specified person has committed a specified offense
A set of facts and circumstances that would induce a reasonably intelligent and prudent person to believe that a specified person has committed a specified crime
A criminal justice perspective that assumes that the system’s components work together harmoniously to achieve the social product we call justice
A proceeding before a judicial officer in which it must be shown that a crime was committed, the crime occurred within the jurisdiction of the court, and there are reasonable grounds to believe that the defendant did the crime
