Explain the "void for vagueness" principle

What will be an ideal response?


A statute must be worded in a manner that a person can understand what conduct is prohibited. If the statute is vague, a person would not be able to distinguish the act as criminal.

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Applying a consequentialist approach to counterterrorism means ______.

a. not worrying about the consequences b. asking whether there will be any consequences to our anti-terrorism policies c. asking whether our policies will render citizens more secure in the long term d. accepting the unavoidable consequences of our policies

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The _____ instead insisted that crime causes real distress, and thus crime prevention and control are essential

a. Left realists b. Right realists c. Center idealists d. Upper idealists

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The bivariate hypothesis-testing procedure that is used when both the independent and dependent variables are continuous is ______.

A. pearson’s correlation B. ?2 C.cramer’s V D. t test

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The idea of a police "subculture" originated with a 1950 study by:

A) William Westley B) O. W. Wilson C) J. Edgar Hoover D) August Vollmer

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