What is insider trading and why is it considered a crime? Provide some examples from the textbook and your own thoughts and ideas about why insider trading happens? Who are the victims?
What will be an ideal response?
Insider trading is defined as stockholders, directors, officers, or any recipient of information not publicly available who take advantage of such limited disclosure for their own behalf. Victims include the investing public.
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In McKeiver v. Pennsylvania (1971), the Supreme Court ruled that:
A. the U.S. Constitution did not give juveniles the right to a jury trial. B. a juvenile could be tried in an adult court for a crime already adjudicated in juvenile court. C. a juvenile has no right to counsel in instances in which a juvenile judge is considering sending a case to an adult court. D. the government need not prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that a juvenile has committed an act of delinquency.
A ruling in a previous case that serves as a guide in deciding subsequent cases with similar circumstances is known as a(n) ____________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Mens rea is the most important element of criminal liability.
a. true b. false
In early law enforcement, the individual who advocated that police ought to be organized militarily was
a. Henry Fielding. b. Sir Robert Peel. c. Commissioner Brown. d. William Walsh. e. August Vollmer.