Describe the difference between formal and informal criminal procedure, and explain why both are essential to crime control in our constitutional democracy
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Formal criminal procedure focuses on decision making according to written rules
spelled out in constitutions, laws, judicial opinions and other sources. Discretionary
decision making involves judgments by professionals based on unwritten rules, their
training, and their experience.
Justice, fairness, and predictability require the certainty and protection against abuse
provided by written rules. These same goals also require discretion to soften the
rigidity of written rules. This discretion must exist because it's impossible for those
people who promulgate the written rules to predict all the ramifications of the rules
they enact. Enforcing written rules to the "letter" could in some circumstances lead to
unfair results.
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a. Visible b. Polarized c. Ultraviolet d. Infrared
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a. Identity theft b. Phishing c. Piracy d. Hacking
Which of the following is a test of the independence of the relationship between nominal or categorical variables?
a. Standard deviation units b. Z scores c. Normal distribution d. Chi-square