Issues arising under the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act of 1994 (MEPA) and the Inter-Ethnic Adoption Provisions amendment could affect placements of all but which of the following?
A. A white child
B. A black child
C. An American Indian child
D. An Hispanic child
Answer: C
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Match the term or concept with the correct description
1. public health model a. tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury 2. primary prevention b. has grown since 2000 3. secondary prevention c. focuses on preventing recidivism, or repeat offending, by offenders and on protecting society from these offenders 4. tertiary prevention d. evidence seized in violation of the 4th Amendment is not permissible at trial 5. poverty rate e. aims to identify practices and situations that put certain individuals at risk for illness or injury 6. physical incivilities f. these policies have swelled our prison population without lowering the crime rate 7. Dr. Benjamin Spock g. author of Baby and Child Care 8. mandatory sentences h. stresses the need to identify the social and other causes of disease so that efforts can be launched to target these causes 9. present drug laws i. have unfairly targeted the African-American and Latino communities 10. expanded community policing j. graffiti, broken windows, abandoned buildings, and strewn trash
In the "Duluth Model," one of the guiding principles is that the response must be "offender-center."
a. True b. False
If a municipal police department recently implemented an innovative new policing strategy and wanted to know whether the program significantly reduced mean crime rates in the city, what kind of statistical test would they use?
A. ?2 B. difference in proportions C. t test D. none of these
Similar fact evidence consists of facts similar to the facts of a crime charged against a defendant. Although courts sometimes admit such evidence, it cannot be admitted in a criminal trial _____
a. to demonstrate the defendant's propensity to commit crime b. to establish the identity of the defendant c. to establish that the defendant had a motive to commit the crime now charged d. to show the absence of a mistake in commission of an act by the defendant