All felony trials and most other criminal trials in the present times are trials of record. This means that the proceedings are _____ in order to preserve the rights of an accused in the event of a conviction.
A. recorded verbatim
B. noted and condensed into affidavits
C. recorded as summary statements
D. outlined and recapped
A. recorded verbatim
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The Federal program where metropolitan hospitals report the incidence of drug-related lethal and nonlethal emergencies is called the Federal Drug Hospital Reporting System (FEDHRS)
a. True b. False
When transporting a female prisoner and a female officer is not available to assist, who could be asked to help?
A) a male junior officer B) a female associate of the arrestee C) a male higher rank officer D) a male bystander in the scene E) a female civilian department employee
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Americans are overwhelmingly supportive of the government's use of drones to target U.S. citizens who might be collaborating with al-Qaeda or other terrorist networks. 2. America’s jails and prisons are referred to as the new asylums because of their increasing number of elderly inmates. 3. Suicide is the number-one cause of death among inmates in local jails. 4. Researchers agree that available data clearly proves a strong relationship between immigrants and criminality. 5. The Task Force of the National Immigration Forum asserts that forcing local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law would threaten community policing efforts and damage relationships with immigrant communities.
Which of the following scenarios represents the ideas of the Get-Tough Era in corrections?
A. Alexis avoids jail time because she cooperates with police. B. Darren works with a support group so he can reduce his sentence. C. Annabelle lobbies to increase taxes for prison rehabilitation programs. D. Chase gets a long sentence because this is his third arrest for theft.