The practice of police targeting minority groups they believe to be more engaged in criminal activity is known as ___________________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
racial profiling
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Shorty, a gang member, kills a rival drug dealer over a territory dispute. What type of violence would this be?
a. Selective violence b. Expressive violence c. Hotspot violence d. Instrumental violence
The concept of "ideal" community-oriented policing would be the:
a. police initiate and the community responds b. community initiates and the police respond c. local city government initiates and the community responds d. both the police and community initiate and the police and community respond
Farrington’s integrated cognitive antisocial potential theory suggests that:
a. the majority of offenders commit crime from the age of 15 to 24 and then desist rapidly; a small minority of offenders commit crime throughout their lives. b. people desist from crime because of important life events (e.g., getting married, having a child, getting a good job) and the increased social connections that come with them. c. delinquent youth typically damage the attachments they have to their parents and prosocial peers, which frees them up to associate and become attached to delinquent peers. d. attachments to delinquent role models set one on a trajectory to interact with delinquent peers, eventually leading to a criminal lifestyle. e. criminal predispositions (e.g., impulsivity, low IQ, lack of empathy, antisocial models, weak social attachments, and economic problems) and situational variables (e.g., opportunity, anger, boredom) interact with each other to produce criminal behavior.
Which of the following is false regarding appellate courts?
a. Appellate courts try cases. b. Appellate courts review the procedures of the case to determine whether an error was made by judicial authorities. c. The appellate court can order a new trial. d. The appellate court can allow the defendant to go free.