Identify three ways to seat judges in the United States.
What will be an ideal response?
Election (partisan and nonpartisan), merit selection, and appointment by an executive or legislature.
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During a recent statewide election voters elected a much more ideologically conservative state legislature. Over the next couple of years that legislature enacted several "get tough" laws aimed at restoring capital punishment, creating mandatory sentences, and removing several options for appeal of the convictions. The legislature justified these actions by arguing that victims were not being considered strongly enough in the criminal process and that convicted persons needed to take responsibility for their crimes. A resurgence of some of the ideas of classical criminology occurred in the late twentieth century. This more recent conservative school of thought is referred to as ___________ criminology. a.new ageb.rigidc.positivistd.neoclassicale.resurgent
What will be an ideal response?
Arizona's Immigration Law signed in 2010, requires police officers who, in the course of a traffic stop or other law enforcement action, have reasonable suspicion the person entered the U.S. illegally to verify the person's immigration status
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
_____ refers to the trial stage of the juvenile court proces
A) Adjudication B) Disposition C) Waiver hearing D) Detention hearing
Match up the terminology in the left column to the definitions in the right column
A) Drawing of cash on accounts made up of uncollected funds. B) The taking and carrying away of personal property of another without the consent and the intent to steal. C) Involves the signing of another person's name in a similar manner in order to commit fraud. D) Shoppers take and conceal good from stores and don't pay before leaving. E) Obtaining credit, merchandise, or services by fraudulent personal representation. F) A fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom that property has been entrusted. G) The Nigerian letter of "419" is an example. H) A crime in which offenders usually force the car's occupants into the street before stealing the vehicle. I) Crime against the dwelling targeted and no violence is directed toward any of the occupants. J) Juvenile stealing a car for enjoyment for short periods. 1) Burglary 2) Carjacking 3) Embezzlement 4) Forgery 5) Fraud 6) Identity theft 7) Joyriding 8) Shoplifting 9) Larceny-theft 10) Check kiting