In the first criminological work to examine victims of crime, he stated that "The public is always the victim of crime, since crime is, by definition, an act regarded as injurious to the public" is a quote credited to:
a. Schafer
b. Mendelsohn
c. Fattah
d. Sutherland
D
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Which of the following was not indicated as a reason for the lack of validation in criminal justice studies?
a. little professional esteem in replication b. design faults in original study c. unfavorable climate d. lack of usefulness of such studies
Index Crimes are committed mostly by
A) young men. B) recidivists (repeat offenders). C) the economically deprived. D) urban dwellers. E) all of the above.
Once the jury has been ________ and sworn to try the defendant, jeopardy attaches
A) instructed B) impaneled C) seated D) selected
Commenting on the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, Jerome Skolnick, and James Fyfe said that the attack was:
a. due to the inability of civilian review boards to control the police. b. a result of attitudes learned by officers on the job. c. unrepresentative of the Los Angeles police and unlikely to happen again. d. part of a trend of increasing police brutality over the past fifty years.