Describe the provisions of the Federal Kidnapping Statute
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• Kidnapping a person held for ransom, reward, or otherwise, who is transported in foreign in interstate or foreign commerce, or who uses any interstate process in furtherance of the kidnapping may be punished for any length of imprisonment, including life or death, if the death penalty is available.
• The statute is applicable if the kidnapping occurs within the maritime or air space jurisdiction of the United States, or the victim is a foreign dignitary or special guest of the U.S.
• If any federal employee is kidnapped while performing his/her official duties or because of his/her duties, the victim is taken in interstate commerce and the person is not released unharmed, the kidnapper may be punished by any term of imprisonment up to life, or death, if available, and if a jury so recommends.
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_________ facilitate the community reintegration of formerly incarcerated persons through the provision of a multiplicity of residential, employment, treatment and family reunification services
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Federal courts have never found a defendant to be entrapped under a due process test of entrapment
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Positivists social science is _____________________
a. a critical process of inquiry that generates liberating knowledge so as to reveal structural and cultural inhibiting forces in an attempt to help people change their living conditions and build a better world for themselves. b. an approach to research that emphasizes the systematic analysis and detailed study of people and text in order to arrive at understandings and interpretations of how people construct and maintain meaning within their social worlds c. a method for combining deductive logic with precise empirical observations in order to discover and confirm a set or probabilistic causal laws that can be used to predict general patterns of human activity d. a philosophical position that views reality and causal processes as fairly straightforward and determinable through scientific observation
The rights disclosed in the Miranda warning include all of the following EXCEPT the right to __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).