1. SOCIAL STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL – CRIMINOLOGY
Confinement
Criminal Justice Agencies
Power & Legitimate Authority
The Courts
Defense
Police
Unit 2
American Criminal Justice System
Prosecution
Content Vocabulary:
adjudication
prosecution
confinement
atavistic
classical theory
positivist theory
parole
civil
infraction criminal
Parole Officer
Different Roles
Theory of Criminology
Probation Officer
Positivist
Classical
Essential Understandings/Learning Goals:
The American criminal justice system seeks to enforce offenses against the community. It is comprised of adjudicators, regulators, and prosecutors.
There is a theory that argues that the most serious crimes are committed by individuals who are “primitive” or “atavistic”—that is, who failed to evolve to a fully human and civilized state.
Criminal justice officials are limited by constitutional rights of individuals.