According to the ACLU and NAACP, citizen-controlled review boards were intended to serve all but which of the following purposes?

A. to assist citizens who were victims of alleged police misconduct and who are unhappy with the outcome of reviews to file civil suits against the officers
B. to respond to officers who engaged in brutality, harassment, and other abusive and illegal practices
C. to offer minority-group members an avenue of redress to help restore their confidence in police departments
D. to protect other officers from malicious, misguided, and otherwise unfounded accusations


A. to assist citizens who were victims of alleged police misconduct and who are unhappy with the outcome of reviews to file civil suits against the officers

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A. Double marginality B. Meat eating C. The blue curtain D. Full enforcement

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a. victim precipitation. b. routine activities. c. victim vulnerability. d. differential association.

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A. less than B. more than C. the same as D. measured differently than

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The case of ______ suggested four standards of mental health care in prisons.

a. Ruiz v. Estelle b. Hudson v. Palmer c. Gamble v. Motion d. Gregg v. Georgia

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