Which of the following statements about police subculture is false?
a. Increasing diversity of police recruits has eliminated the social homogeneity of the workforce
b. Civil litigation has increased the risk of covering for another officer
c. Decreasing crime rates have reduced the need for a "code of silence"
d. Police unions have contributed to the weakening of the police subculture
c
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An offender convicted of a crime in a state or federal court files an appeal with an appellate court in the system (state or federal) where the case was tried.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases required courts to provide attorneys for poor defendants facing the death penalty?
a. Robinson v. California (1962) b. The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) c. Barron v. Baltimore (1833) d. Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) e. Powell v. Alabama (1932)
The Kansas City Gun Experiment seems to suggest that
a. conservatives are right in their suggestion that guns don't kill people, people kill people b. liberals are right in their suggestion that guns kill people c. tough mandatory sentences can deter offenders from using guns in the commission of crime d. a focused program to remove guns from the streets can reduce gun-related crime
According to the text, which of the following statements about corrections officers' unions is true?
a. The workforce at most prisons is not organized into unions. b. Unions usually put the goals of the institution above the needs of individual officers. c. Researchers see unions as being resistant to attempts to discipline officers engaging in misconduct. d. Unions encourage their members to report instances of misconduct, for the good of the overall workforce.