What constitutes adequate provocation to reduce murder to manslaughter?

What will be an ideal response?


The provocation must be so extreme that the defendant acted in a murderous rage. The defendant's passion must be sudden and with no cooling-off period.

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Calculate the 99% confidence interval (also using the t-score method)

What will be an ideal response?

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For police, increasing contact with ______ under positive circumstances could help alleviate stress.

a. their immediate supervisor b. service animals c. law-abiding citizens d. incarcerated individuals

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Combining qualitative and quantitative methods within one research project can strengthen the project’s design by

A) Enhancing measurement reliability B) Enhancing causal validity C) Disproving authenticity D) Disproving nomothetic causal validity

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Which of the following elements are true about the French crime prevention policy of the 1980s?

a. The National Council for the Prevention of Crime was established to formulate preventive programs that would avoid the same unrest that had occurred in Lyon b. Local councils were set up for a ‘bottom up approach’ c. A strategy of integration was implemented for deprived neighborhoods by creating partnerships between criminal justice and social agencies d. All of the above

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