Conviction rates for indigent defendants and for those who hired private attorneys are about the same in federal and state courts.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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What had to occur to give women the legal weapon needed to gain equal rights to work?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The vast majority of terrorists are lower-class, uneducated males. 2. For political criminals, crime is instrumental. 3. The raison d’état doctrine holds that some violations of the common law are necessary to serve public utility. 4. The more complex, urban, industrial, and interrelated the world community becomes, the easier it is for a small, fanatical minority of the left or right to disrupt, destroy, or endanger everyone. 5. Neither greed nor need motivates the political criminal.
A psychological profile requires evaluation of all available evidence including all but:
a. physical evidence; b. DNA comparisons; c. personal opinion of investigating officers; d. behavioural evidence.
What insanity test emerged from the M'Naghten case?
a. the "right and wrong" test b. the substantial capacity test c. the product-of-mental illness test d. the defect of character test