Many parolees "max out" on time and cannot be held any longer, regardless of how the parole board feels about the inmate's likelihood to recidivate.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Political corruption, bribery, kickbacks, and influence peddling among federal, state, and local political officeholders have been problematic since the very beginnings of the republic. 2. Criminologists have consistently analyzed corporate and organizational crime, dating back to the 1800s. 3. Sometimes described as the poster girl for white-collar crime, Martha Stewart was convicted of industrial espionage in 2004. 4. The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first of many regulatory laws passed to control corporate behavior. 5. Corporations were legalized as organizations since a Supreme Court decision in 1886.

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Which of the following statements represents the U.S. Supreme Court’s stand regarding providing an indigent defendant with an expert witness?

a. The state must provide the defendant with the basic tools to present an adequate defense, which may include an expert witness. b. The state must appoint a neutral expert for the defendant. c. The cost of providing an expert for the defendant cannot exceed $1 million. d. The defendant must make a preliminary showing that his attorney cannot provide effective assistance without the use of an expert before the defendant is entitled to have an expert appointed to assist in his or her defense.

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Neither the mission nor the organizational structure of prisons has changed much over the past 50 years

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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The body of law that sets forth the rules to be followed in the trial of a case and is also concerned with the carrying out of court orders and redress of injuries

a. case law. b. procedural law c. common law. d. substantive law.

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