Glossary
Criminal Justice Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential criminal justice professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key criminal justice professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in criminal justice professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Community policing
- Police-community partnerships.
- Corrections
- Jails, prisons and supervision.
- Criminology
- Study of crime.
- Diversion
- Alternatives to prosecution.
- Due process
- Fair legal procedures.
- Evidence-based policing
- Policing based on research.
- Hot spots
- High-crime places.
- NIBRS
- Incident-based crime reporting.
- NIJ
- National Institute of Justice.
- Probable cause
- Basis for arrest.
- Recidivism
- Reoffending.
- Restorative justice
- Repairing harm.
- Tenure
- Permanent status.
- UCR
- Uniform Crime Reporting.
- Victimology
- Study of victims.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Criminal Justice Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Criminal Justice Professor training.
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