define a system?  What evidence may be used to demonstrate that the 
criminal justice process qualifies as a system?
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7.  What are the major components of the criminal justice system?
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8.  What are the basic goals of the criminal justice process?
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9.  In class, we identified a number of "non-systemic" aspects of the 
criminal justice system.  Be able to discuss each of these.
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10. One of the prime sources of authority for the operation of the 
criminal justice system is the United States Constitution.  What 
provisions of this document are of particular importance to the actors in 
the system?
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11. Pursuant to their authority to control the activities of the criminal 
justice system, legislatures (both state and federal) carry out a number 
of functions that affect the criminal justice process.  Be able to 
describe these various functions.
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12. What is the "void-for-vagueness" doctrine?
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13. What is the difference between <em>substantive criminal law</em> and 
<em>procedural law</em>?
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14. What executive functions are relevant to the operations of the 
criminal justice system?
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15. What legislative functions are relevant to the operations of the 
criminal justice system?
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16. What roles do appellate courts play in the operations of the criminal 
justice system?
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17. What is <em>discretion</em>?
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18. What is the <em>structural/functional</em> perspective in sociology?
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19. What is the difference between the <em>Due Process</em> model of 
criminal justice and the <em>Crime Control</em> model of the system?
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20. How can the recurrent themes of <em>time, force, search, interrogation, 
evidence sufficiency, consent, fairness</em>, and <em>discretion</em> be 
used to analyze the criminal justice process?

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