Explain what is meant by the “totality of circumstances” that is considered when making police stops.

What will be an ideal response?


The totality of circumstances requires that an officer has a particularized and objective basis for suspecting that a particular person is or has been involved in criminal activity; may be based on a variety of objective observations, information from police reports, and consideration of modes or patterns of operation of certain kinds of offenders from which a police officer may draw inferences and makes deductions concerning the probability that the party in question is involved in criminal conduct.

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Briefly explain the difference between socially harmful acts and private wrongs.

What will be an ideal response?

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What are biometrics?

What will be an ideal response?

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The concept of luck or of being lucky relates to the focal concern

a. Excitement b. Autonomy c. Fate d. Smartness

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

1. The data from the National Crime Victimization Survey is an example of secondary data. 2. Secondary data usually includes small samples. 3. Accessing secondary data can be very difficult in comparison to accessing primary data. 4. The federally funded data collection programs are designed to provide data on a handful of variables. 5. The National Crime Victimization Survey is the largest federally funded data source providing high quality criminal victimization data.

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