Trial by battle and trial by ordeal both were vested in the spiritual notion of divine intervention
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
Answer: TRUE
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A demand for the elimination of the traditional divisions of power and labor between the sexes would probably come from a(n) __________ feminist
a. socialist b. radical c. liberal d. Marxist
__________ is the benefit produced by the collaboration of two or more systems in excess of their individual contributions
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Because inmates are in prison to be punished, the Eighth Amendment does not apply to them. 2. The Eighth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. 3. The Fourteenth Amendment has been used to provide due process rights to offenders. 4. Kansas’s Sexually Violent Predator Act is criminal law rather than civil law. 5. The Supreme Court has ruled the use of civil commitment laws against sex offenders to be unconstitutional.
Currently, the state uses sentencing where the offender can be released early from a correctional institution if he or she has served a required minimum portion of his or her sentence. This type of sentence is known as:
a. mandatory minimum sentencing. c. indeterminate sentencing. b. determinate sentencing. d. presumptive sentencing.