List of basic criminal justice topics

For a more comprehensive list, see the List of criminal justice topics.

Criminal justice refers to the system used by government to maintain social control, enforce laws, and administer justice. Law enforcement (police), courts, and corrections are the primary agencies charged with these responsibilities. See the general list of legal topics regarding any legal topics outside of the area of criminal justice. Basic topics in criminal justice include:

Nature of criminal justice

Main article: Criminal justice

Branches of criminal justice

History of criminal justice

Main article: History of criminal justice

Basic criminal justice concepts

Abuse defense --Actus reus --Administrative law --Affray --Arraignment --Arrest warrant --Arson --Assault --Attendant circumstances

Bail --Bias crime --Booking --Burglary

Case law --Causation --Chain of custody --Citizen's arrest --civil law --Clearance rate --Common law --Concurrence --Concurrent sentence --Conflict model --Consecutive sentence --Consensus model --Corpus delicti --Corrections --Creative lawyering --Crime --Crime control --Crime index --Criminal justice --Criminology

Death penalty --Defense (legal) --Defense of property --Denial of a speedy trial --Deterrence --Diminished responsibility --Diminished responsibility in English law --Double jeopardy --Due process

Elder abuse --Embezzlement --Entrapment --Espionage --Evidentiary hearing --Excuse --Execution warrant --

Felony --Forgery --Fear of crime

Grand jury

Hate crime

Ignorance of the law --Inchoate offense --Indictable offence --Indictment --Individual rights --Infraction --Innovative defense --Insanity defense --Islamic law

Jurisprudence --Jury instructions --Jury nullification --Jury trial --Justice --Justification

Kangaroo court --Kidnapping

Larceny --Law --Liability

Mafia --Manslaughter --Manslaughter in English law --M'Naghten Rules --Mens rea --Miranda Warning --Misdemeanor --Mistake --Motive --Motor vehicle theft --Murder --Murder in English law

Negligence

Obscenity --Offense --Organized crime

Pardon --Penal law --Peremptory pleas --Perjury --Plea bargain --Precedent --Predator --Preliminary hearing --Prescription --Probable cause --Probation --Procedural defense --Prosecutorial misconduct --Prostitution --Provocation --Provocation in English lawPublic order

Rape --Resisting unlawful arrest --Robbery

Selective prosecution --Self defense and defense of others --Sentence --Sharia --Shoplifting --Social control --Stare decisis --Star Chamber --Statutory law --Suicide --Summary offence

Terrorism --Theft --Treason --Trespass --Trial --Trial by jury --Trial de novo

Violence

War crime --Warrant --Writ --Writ of Habeas Corpus

Criminal justice scholars

Leaders in criminal justice

Main article: List of criminal justice notables

Criminal justice lists

Main article: List of criminal justice topics

See also

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