GOV 357L

Final Exam – Fall 2012

 

“Key Words, Phrases, Concepts, People”

 

Updated:  12-9-2012   2:00 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

·       White v. Texas

·       Gideon v. Wainwright

·       Brown v. Board of Education

 

 

Key words and phrases:

 

·       Fight vs. Truth Theory

·       Uniform Crime Report

1.    Felony/Misdemeanor

2.    Part 1/Part 2 Crimes

3.    Personal (Violent)/Property Crimes

·       National Crime Victimization Survey

·       Clearance

·       Arrest

·       Search vs. Seizure

·       Stop vs. Frisk

·       Probable Cause

·       Preponderance of the Evidence

·       Reasonable Doubt

·       Exclusionary Rule

·       Miranda Rule

·       4th Amendment

·       5th Amendment

·       6th Amendment

 

 

Police Policies

 

·       Use of Deadly Force

 

 

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

     

 

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.