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C
- Calls for Service
- California v. Greenwood (1988)
- Capacity {Legal}
- Capacity (Corrections)
- Capital Offense
- Capital Punishment
- Capricious
- Career Criminal
- Carnal Knowledge [Criminal Law]
- Carjacking
- Caroll v. United States (1925) Read the Abridged Case
- Cartel
- Case File
- Case Law
- Caseload (Courts)
- Caseload (Corrections)
- Castration
- Causation [Criminal Law]
- Celerity {Rational Choice Theory}
- Certainty {Rational Choice Theory}
- Certiorari. see Writ of Certiorari
- Certiorari Power
- Cesare Beccaria. See Beccaria, Cesare.
- Challenge for Cause {Voir Dire}
- Chambers
- Change of Venue. See Venue.
- Charge
- Charge to the Jury
- Charging Document
- Chicago School
- Child Abuse
- Child Neglect
- Chimel v. California (1969) Read the Abridged Case
- Circuit Court
- Circumstantial Evidence
- Citation {to appear}
- Citizen’s Arrest
- Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS)
- City Attorney
- Civil Death
- Civil Justice
- Civil Law
- Civil Liberties
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Revolution
- Civil Service
- Civilian Review Board
- Classical School
- Clearance Rate {Case}
- Clear and Present Danger Test [Criminal Law]
- Clemency
- Clerk of Court
- Closing Argument
- Club Drugs
- Code [Law]
- Codification [Law]
- Code of Hammurabi
- Coercion [Criminal Law]
- Coffin v. U.S. (1895)
- Cohort [Research Methods]
- Commentaries on the Laws of England {by Sir William Blackstone}
- Commercial Burglary [Criminal Law]
- Commitment [Civil]
- Common Law
- Common Law Arson. See Arson.
- Common Law Felonies
- Community Corrections
- Community Court
- Community Defender Organization
- Community Engagement [Policing]
- Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) [U.S. Dept. of Justice]
- Community Oriented Policing (COP)
- Community Policing. See Community Oriented Policing (COP)
- Community Service
- Comparative Criminology
- Compelling State Interest {Constitutional Law}
- Compensatory Damages
- Competent to Stand Trial
- Complaint
- Complicity [Criminal Law]
- Computer Crime
- Computer Virus
- Concealed Carry Law {Firearms}
- Concurrence [Criminal Law]
- Concurrent Sentence
- Concurring Opinion
- Conditions of Release
- Conditions of Parole
- Condonation
- Justice Amy Coney Barrett
- Confidential Informant
- Confinement
- Conflict Model {of Criminal Justice}
- Conflict Perspective [Criminology]
- Conflict Resolution[Policing]
- Confrontation Clause {of the United State Constitution}
- Congregate System [Corrections]
- Congress of the United States
- Consecutive Sentence
- Consensus Perspective {on Criminal Justice}
- Consent Search
- Conservative [Politics / Courts]
- Conservative Decisions [Courts]
- Conspiracy [Criminal Law]
- Consistency
- Constitution
- Constitution of the United States Read the Text of the Constitution.
- Constitutive Criminology
- Constructive Possession [Criminal Law]
- Containment (Criminology)
- Contempt
- Control Group [Research Methods]
- Controlled Substance
- Controlled Substance Act (CSA)
- Conversion [Criminal Law]
- Conviction
- Cooperative Federalism
- Corporate Crime
- Corporal Punishment [Corrections]
- Corpus Delicti
- Correctional Agency
- Correctional Institution
- Corrections
- Corroborating Evidence [Criminal Law]
- Corruption
- Cosa Nostra
- Cost-benefit Analysis [Theory]
- Counsel (Legal)
- Counseling [Corrections]
- Count
- Counterfeiting
- Court
- Court Clerk. See Clerk of Court.
- Court Martial
- Court of General Jurisdiction
- Court of Last Resort
- Court of Record
- Court Order
- Court Probation
- Court Reporter
- Courtroom Work Group
- Credit Card Fraud
- Crime
- Crime Control Model {Packer’s}
- Crime Index (FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports)
- Crime Rate
- Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)
- Criminal
- Criminal Activity
- Criminal Behavior
- Criminal Code
- Criminal History
- Criminal Homicide (FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports)
- Criminal Investigation
- Criminalist
- Criminalistics
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice Act (CJA)
- Criminal Justice Funnel
- Criminal Justice System
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Negligence
- Criminal Procedure
- Criminal Proceedings
- Criminology
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment
- Culpability
- Culpable Mental State [Criminal Law]
- Cultural Defense
- Cultural Pluralism. See Multiculturalism.
- Cultural Sensitivity [Policing]
- Curtilage
- Custody {Jails}
- Custody Level
- Cybercrime
- Cyberstalking
- cyberterrorism
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