What is the difference between critical infrastructures and key assets? Provide one example.

What will be an ideal response?


The students should utilize the USA PATRIOT Act to make the distinction. A strong answer will include the following:
a. Key assets are an aspect of critical infrastructures. An attack on key assets would result in damage, but not be debilitating.
b. Example of key assets: national monuments
c. Example of critical infrastructure: electrical grid

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The 14th Amendment was successfully used to protect the interests of individual citizens against the wealthy and corporations in the Gilded Age

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. There are more private police officers in the U.S. then there are public police. 2. Most police work centers around a crime-fighting role. 3. The service style emphasizes order maintenance and informal ways of resolving conflicts and disputes in the community. 4. Most police departments are structured on a militaristic model. 5. Criminal investigation is basic to police work.

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Discuss the differences between criminal homicide and non-criminal homicide. What defenses are available in certain homicides? What role does the definition of a human being play in these defenses?

What will be an ideal response?

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In order to prove criminal liability, the prosecutor need not prove _____.

a. actus reus b. mens rea c. excuse d. concurrence

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