Bringing juveniles into the juvenile justice system who would not otherwise be involved in delinquent activity is known as:
a. relabeling.
b. net widening.
c. criminality.
d. deinstitutionalization.
b
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Industrial espionage always involves the use of legal activities to gather information about a competitor
a. True b. False
In many states, defendants who plead guilty forfeit their right to appeal the conviction.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Jason was arrested for an offense when he was sixteen. The prosecutors decided to waive his case to adult court; he was then convicted and sent to an adult prison. If this had occurred in 2004, Jason might have been part of the 40 percent of youths in adult prison who had committed a:
A. drug offense. B. sex offense. C. homicide. D. nonviolent offense.
A proper "frisk" under the stopandfrisk rules established by Terry v. Ohio: a. is limited to a patdown of the suspect's outer clothing unless something that could be a weapon is feltduring the pat-down
b. may not be conducted unless there is no doubt in the mind of the officer that the suspect has a weapon. c. may include a search of an area within 100 yards of the suspect if the pat-down results in the feeling of anobject which could be a weapon. d. may not even extend to a pat-down unless the officer has probable cause to believe the suspect has aweapon.