| Burger Court | The Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice Warren Burger.
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| crime control model | The model of the criminal justice system that views the repression of criminal conduct as its most important function.
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| criminal justice | The structure, functions, and decision processes of those agencies that deal with the management of crime—the police, the courts, and corrections.
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| due process model | The model of the criminal justice system that stresses the possibility of error in the stages leading to trial and emphasizes the procedural rights over system efficiency.
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| ethnocentrism | The belief that one's own culture or ethnic group is superior to others.
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| "law and order" | A political ideology and slogan that sought a return to the morality and values of earlier times and rejected the growing permissiveness in government and social affairs.
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| Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) | A federal bureaucracy created to involve the national government in local crime control by supplying funds to the states for training and upgrading criminal justice agencies.
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| Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act | A piece of federal law-and-order legislation that was viewed by many as a political maneuver aimed at allaying fears of crime rather than bringing about criminal justice reform.
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| President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice | A series of task forces appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to study crime and justice in the United States and to make recommendations for change.
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| terrorism | The systematic use or threat of extreme violence directed against actual or symbolic victims, typically performed for psychological rather than material effects, for the purpose of coercing individuals, groups, communities, or governments into making political or tactical concessions.
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| Warren Court | The Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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