________ profiling is known as any police action initiated on the basis of the race, ethnicity, or national origin of a suspect rather than on the suspect's behavior or on information that identifies the suspect as being engaged in criminal activity
A) Religious
B) Ethnic
C) Racial
D) Biased
C) Racial
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In Flippo v. West Virginia, the Supreme Court determined that there is a general "murder scene exception" to the search warrant requirements of the Fourth Amendment
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A Federal Correctional Complex provides financial savings due to lower construction and operating costs, but also has
a. personnel advantages since staff can have career mobility without making geographic moves. b. security disadvantages since all facilities in the complex are protected only by one razor wire fence. c. public relations advantages since its modern design makes it difficult for community members to identify it as a prison. d. the disadvantage of being located in sections of the country where it is difficult to recruit employees.
Citizens of Japanese ancestry in Central America and South America countries were rounded up, handed over to American authorities, transported to the United States, and thrown into concentration camps in the early 1940s.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
According to a 1996 study by NIJ of 28 wrongfully convicted individuals, in the majority of cases:
a. No eyewitness testimony was available, and the convictions were based on faulty circumstantial evidence. b. The most compelling evidence in the cases was eye witness testimony that was wrong. c. The eye witness testimony did not match the circumstantial evidence presented at trial. d. Eye witness testimony was insufficient to sustain a conviction on appeal.