Know the various agencies within the Department of Homeland Security
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• Before DHS there was office of HS in the White House, headed by Tom Ridge
• DHS was created as a result of the HS Act of 2002, inaugurated in 2003
• DHS reorganized more than 100 units into the new DHS
• After it’s creation, the DHS became the third largest department in the federal government with more than 180,000 employees (2008)
• Only the departments of defense and VA are larger
• Key note: the US Coast Guard and Secret Service were placed under the DHS umbrella
• Departments of energy, justice and treasury moved to DHS
• .FEMA which was independent, went to DHS
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After the Roman Empire fell, law enforcement became the responsibility of individual
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Experimental research is appropriate for all types of criminal justice research. 2. According to temporal ordering, something that happened today could have caused something that occurred yesterday. 3. According to temporal ordering, a decision to rob a store today cannot have been caused by the loss of income next week. 4. Age is frequently associated with outcomes in a nonlinear manner. 5. Spurious relationships can occur via confounding factors and/or intervening variables.
Which of the following is constructed after the initial rough draft of the questionnaire?
a. Variables list b. Dummy tables c. Questionnaire wording d. None of the above
Which Amendment has been used by the Supreme Court to infer the right to privacy?
a. the Third Amendment b. the Seventh Amendment c. the Ninth Amendment d. the Tenth Amendment