In the 1980s, the federal government and many states changed their insanity defenses after the insanity acquittal of
a. John Hinckley
b. Bernhard Goetz.
c. Daniel McNaughtan.
d. David Neubauer.
a
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Peter Manning (2006) notes a package of measures forming part of the overall counterterrorist strategy impacting rights and freedoms, including ______.
a. new screening procedures for passengers boarding aircraft b. establishing a federal directorate of intelligence c. consolidating data gathered at immigration and customs locations d. all of these
Make an argument that the only reasonable way to investigate allegations of police misconduct is to trust them to people outside of the police culture. Then make the opposite argument-that only police officers are knowledgeable enough to accomplish this job effectively.
What will be an ideal response?
Merton's anomie theory of criminal behavior stresses the:
A) importance of socialization and middle-class measuring rods.? B) ?idea that American society emphasizes common success goals without providing equal access to the means for obtaining them. C) ?idea that criminal personality is not inherited, but tendencies toward criminal behavior are. D) ?importance of the individual's early family environment in determining attitudes toward crime.
The stage of Finding and Applying the Label in developing a bisexual identity is marked by
a. discovery of the term or accepting the fact that one is strongly attracted to both sexes. b. a sudden but definitive repulsion to heterosexuality. c. recognizing that bisexuality represents confusion about their "true" sexual identity. d. learning how to "just say no" to feelings for one or the other sex.