Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Because inmates are in prison to be punished, the Eighth Amendment does not apply to them.
2. The Eighth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.
3. The Fourteenth Amendment has been used to provide due process rights to offenders.
4. Kansas’s Sexually Violent Predator Act is criminal law rather than civil law.
5. The Supreme Court has ruled the use of civil commitment laws against sex offenders to be unconstitutional.
1. False
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False
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This characteristic most distinguishes the crime syndicate
a. unity of action b. corruption c. death to the informant d. presence of weak and foolish public officials
A double-blind lineup is one in which the investigator conducting the lineup (or assembling a photo array) does not know who the suspect is
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Net widening refers to:
a. the tendency of society to criminally label people who commit victimless crimes. b. the notion that we could drive the crime rate down if we identified and imprisoned chronic offenders. c. the introduction of more people into the criminal justice system through the use of diversion programs. d. all of the above. e. none of the above.
This is the act that requires the FBI to collect statistics on hate crime ______.
A. Bias Crime Statistics Act of 1980 B. Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990 C. Anti-Hate Crime Statistics Act of 2001 D. Bias Crime Statistics Act of 2011