What is the difference between factual cause and proximate cause?
What will be an ideal response?
Factual cause asks whether “but for” the criminal’s act, the victim would have suffered the harm. Proximate causes are those intervening acts or events that may actually have caused the harm to the victim.
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Functional Family Therapy is an effective short-term intervention program targeting youths aged 11–18 who are facing problems with delinquency, substance abuse, or violence
a. True b. False
In which of the following cases did the court hold that cell phones are more appropriately treated as containers that store vast amounts of information?
a. U.S. v. Finley b. U.S. v. Park c. U.S. v. Robinson d. U.S. v. Zamora
After you have advised a subject of his or her Miranda rights, if the subject acknowledges a complete understanding but still states a willingness to go forward and to confess, what do you do next?
A) Ask only routine questions until a defense attorney appears. B) Do not ask questions regardless—it may be a trick. C) Go ahead with the questioning and listen to the confession. D) Let the subject cool his or her heels overnight to be sure of the decision. E) Tell the suspect to wait until you can get a prosecutor to listen.
Which dissociative disorder involves a person feeling detached from his/her mental processes or physical body?
a. fugue b. depersonalization c. amnesia d. identity