Explain the functions of a dispositional hearing in juvenile cases
What will be an ideal response?
This hearing is to determine where the child should be placed. The court will decide whether the child should be immediately returned to the parents or placed in an out-of-home environment for a specific time. The guiding principle in this hearing is "the best interests of the child."
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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Passage of the U.S.A. Patriot Act extended the surveillance to U.S. citizens under all circumstances and expanded the law to include the collection of terrorism intelligence. 2. One of the key points of the U.S.A. Patriot Act is that it upset the historic balance between security and law enforcement needs and balances privacy and liberty interests. 3. Since 9/11 Congress has enacted or modified laws designed to prevent terrorism and establish homeland security. 4. The FISC is to monitor and control the surveillance activities of state and federal law enforcement officials who are investigating suspected foreign intelligence operations in the United States
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. During the early history of corrections in the United States, the courts were generally involved in prison operations. 2. Correctional staff of the opposite gender can constitutionally search an inmate of the opposite gender. 3. The imposition of the death penalty must not consist of the unnecessary infliction of pain or be malicious or sadistic in nature. 4. Liability can attach only at the federal level of government. 5. Malicious prosecution is defined as doing what a reasonably prudent person would not have done in similar circumstances.
It has been definitively proven that abortion reduces crime
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
By the 1970s, research began to show three of the following findings. Which does NOT belong?
A. Unattended disorderly behavior in neighborhoods is a signal to more serious criminals that residents do not care what goes on in their community and that the criminals can move in and operate with impunity. B. Having more police officers using methods made popular under the professional or reform model does not significantly reduce crime. C. Neighborhood-based policing projects had high success rates because of low costs, administrative efficiency, and high citizen interest. D. A rapid response to crime does not necessarily lead to more arrests.