Explain jurisdiction. ✔✔A government's general power to exercise authority over all person's
and things within it's territory.
-can be exclusive.
-enforcement authority granted to only one law enforcement agency at a particular location or
on a particular subject matter.
-an agency is only one that has the authority to arrest in that area.
- can be concurrent.
-enforcement authority shared by two or more law enforcement agencies at a particular location
or on a particular subject matter.
-an agency shares the authority to act with other agencies.
Describe the difference between statutory law and case law. ✔✔Statutory law- the body of law
derived fro. statutes rather than from constitutions or judicial decisions.
Case law- the law found in the collection of reported cases that form all or part of the body of
law within a given jurisdiction.
Define force. ✔✔Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by any means on or
against a person or thing.
Define deadly force. ✔✔Any force which carries a substantial risk that it will proximately result
in the death of any person.
Physical harm to persons. ✔✔Any injury, illness, or other physiological impairment, regardless
of it's gravity or duration.
Serious physical harm to persons. ✔✔Any mental illness or condition of such gravity as would
normally require hospitalization or prolonged psychiatric treatment.
Any physical harm that carries a substantial risk of death.
Any physical harm that involves some permanent incapacity, whether partial or total, or that
involves some temporary, substantial incapacity.
Any physical harm that involves some permanent disfigurement or that involves some
temporary, serious disfigurement.
Any physical harm that involves acute (i.e. severe) pain of such duration as to result in
substantial suffering or that involves any degree of prolonged or intractable pain.
Physical harm to property. ✔✔Any tangible or intangible damage to property that, in any degree,
results in loss to its value or interferes with its use or enjoyment.
Serious physical harm to property. ✔✔Any physical harm to property that does either of the
following:
-results in substantial loss to the value of the property or requires a substantial amount of time,
effort or money to repair or replace.
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