The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Fourth Amendment allows for warrantless searches by law enforcement officers in certain situations. Name the situations in which warrantless searches are legal and authorized

What will be an ideal response?


Voluntary consent to search provided by the suspect, exigent circumstances, stop and frisk searches, search incident to arrest, and special circumstances.

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Expiration release is also referred to as "maxing out."

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

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The ______ was stopped after only a few days due to ethics issues.

a. San Diego Correctional Experiment b. Abu Ghraib Scandal c. Stanford Prison Experiment d. Sadul Grabi Scandal

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The two purposes of unit management are to decentralize the administration of the prison and to do which of the following?

A. decrease recidivism rates for inmates once they are released B. improve communication between staff and inmates as well as among staff members C. improve safety of correctional staff D. decrease the oversight of inmates

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_____ profiling is often used in the search for property offenders.

a) Residential b) Racial c) Geographic d) Equivocal e) Ethnic

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