The increase in homicides in the mid-1980s is commonly attributed to ________
A) lenient courts
B) single parents
C) urban life
D) more guns in use
Answer: D
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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Although countries do not duplicate legal systems, it is possible for countries to share legal traditions. 2. The USA PATRIOT Act is unique in American history because it is the only time substantive law has been modified as a reaction to a traumatic event such as war. 3. One of the few things about which comparative criminal justice scholars agree is that there are four legal traditions in the world today. 4. Indigenous law refers to a culture’s original law.
Which of the following studies illustrates the controversy surrounding observational studies in the field?
a. Detroit Jury Study b. Chicago Jury Study c. Roswell Jury Study d. New York Jury Study
Braithwaite and Fisse's defense of the notion of corporations as directly responsible for criminal actions stresses all but which of the following factors?
a. Corporations collectively carry out spectacularly complex tasks, which no individuals could carry out independently b. Corporate policies are the equivalent of corporate intentionality c. Corporations can legitimately be said to have emotions and feeling d. If corporations can formulate policy, they can also be affected by punishment
________ involves procuring someone to willfully lie under oath
A) Extortion B) Bribery C) Perjury D) Subornation of perjury E) All of the above