PSCI 2481

Final Exam – Fall 2009

 

“Key Words, Phrases, Concepts, People”

 

Updated:  12-8-09   3:00 PM

 

 

Judicial Decision Making: (for background see CSM, Chapters 12-13)

 

·        Precedent

·        The Orthodox/Strict View vs. the Loose View (Llewellyn, “The Bramble Bush”)

·        The North Carolina cases

·        Non-legal factors in judicial decisions

·        Walker v. Birmingham

Martin Luther King, Wyatt Walker, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth

“Bull” Connor, William Jenkins

 

 

Court Impact: (CSM, Chapters 14-15)

 

·        Judicial Activism & Restraint

·        Judicial Review

·        Compliance

·        Implementation

·        Conditions for Court Impact

·        (Bob) White v. Texas

·        (Clarence Earl) Gideon v. Wainwright

·        Brown v. Board of Education

 

 

People:

 

·        Sir Robert Peel

·        Henry Fielding (aka Tom Jones)

·        Charles Reich & Dudley Hiibel

·        Paul Childs & James Turney

·        William Rehnquist/John Roberts

·        Frank Serpico

·        Whitman Knapp (of the Knapp Commission)

·        Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt -- for his role prior to assuming the Presidency.

 

Key words and phrases:

 

·        Constable and Night Watch

·        Uniform Crime Report

1.     Felony/Misdemeanor

2.     Part 1/Part 2 Crimes

3.     Personal (Violent)/Property Crimes

·        National Crime Victimization Survey

·         “Broken Windows” (Wilson and Kelling)

·        Grass-eater/Meat-eater

·        Proactive/Reactive

·        Clearance

·        Arrest

·        Search vs. Seizure

·        Stop vs. Frisk

·        Probable Cause

·        Preponderance of the Evidence

·        Reasonable Doubt

·        Profiling

·        Fruits of a Poisonous Tree

·        Exclusionary Rule

·        Miranda Rule

·        2nd Amendment

·        4th Amendment

·        5th Amendment

·        6th Amendment

 

 

Police Policies

 

·        Use of Deadly Force

·        Hot Pursuit

·        Internal Affairs vs. Civilian Review Boards

 

 

Court Cases:

 

Role of the courts in governing the rest of the criminal justice system

 

·        Brown v. Texas

·        Hiibel v. 6th Judicial District

·        Tennessee v. Garner

·        Queen v. Dudley and Stephens

·        Miranda v. Arizona

     

 

Don’t forget to re-examine criminal procedure (Carp, Stidham & Manning, Chapters 9-10).  This was assigned reading both before and after the Midterm.

 

This is not an exhaustive list nor does it reflect facts/concepts addressed in the Crime File videos and many class lectures. 

 

You should know basic info about theories of crime, history of policing, police activity and its effect of crime and public safety, use of deadly force, and the mechanisms for oversight of policing.