SOCIAL STUDIES HIGH SCHOOL

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SOCIAL STUDIESHIGH SCHOOL CRIMINOLOGY
Confinement
Criminal Justice Agencies
Power Legitimate Authority
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
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 atavisticthat is, who
  failed to evolve to a fully human and civilized
  state.
• Criminal justice officials are limited by
  constitutional rights of individuals.