CRJU 101 Lecture Notes - Crack Cocaine, Procedural Law, Social Contract

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15 Dec 2022

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Criminology and Criminal Justice

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CRJU 101

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Criminal justice chapter 1: what is criminal justice. What is crime: behavior that breaks a law. What is procedural fairness: how fair the system feels. Increase in corporate, white-collar crime: current era, low and declining rates of traditional crime. Components of the american criminal justice system: police, enforce the laws, courts, conduct fair and impartial trials, corrections, carry out sentences imposed by the courts. Models of criminal justice: consensus model, assumes criminal justice system components work together to achieve justice, systems cooperate, smooth movement through system, law reflects what the people want/value, conflict model, assumes goals of criminal justice system components conflict. Justice is a product of conflict, not cooperation: law reflects what the government/power/people in power want/value. Pretrial activities: first appearance, opportunity for bail. Information or indictment: grand jury or prosecutor, what the person on trial is actually charged with, arraignment, enter plea, guilty, not guilty.

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1)Sarbanes-Oxley limits personal loans from a company to its executives to one loan of no more than $10,000, amortized over five years, at a time. true or false

Under the 1933 Act, proof of intentional violation is usually required to impose:

	A.	criminal sanctions only.
	B.	criminal or civil sanctions.
	C.	criminal and pragmatic sanctions.
	D.	criminal, civil, and equitable (injunctive) sanctions.
	E.	pragmatic sanctions.

The damages of a defrauded purchaser of securities:

are measured at the time of purchase.

include a punitive amount to discourage further fraud.

are measured at the time the fraud is discovered.

are considered a "sunk cost" and are not recoverable.

include speculative damages.

The Securities Enforcement Remedies Act:

	A.	allows for the prohibition of an individual's service as an officer or director of a business organization.
	B.	created the SEC.
	C.	changes membership requirements of corporate audit committees.
	D.	requires proof of criminal violation for individual and organizational fines to be imposed.
	E.	refrains from imposing liability on a theory of fraud on any person who shall make or cause to be made any false or misleading statements.

The regulation of securities began as a program to:

	A.	prohibit an individual's service as an officer or director.
	B.	recover triple damages in civil actions against a user of nonpublic information.
	C.	help the United States overcome the Great Depression of the 1930s.
	D.	eliminate liabilities for short-swing profits made by insiders.
	E.	help potential investors to make investment decisions based on less certain criteria.

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CRJU 101 Lecture Notes - Crack Cocaine, Procedural Law, Social Contract

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