Choose one actor in the court subsystem and identify how this actor promotes public safety.

What will be an ideal response?


Courts determine whether suspects are guilty of criminal behavior to determine whether they should be punished for their alleged transgressions. Prosecutors are charged with representing the state in criminal trials. Judges oversee the court process and, among other things, sentence offenders in an effort to promote public safety.

Criminal Justice

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The use of inhalants is also known as ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Criminal Justice

What type of protective clothing and equipment should an investigator wear when handling potentially infectious material?

What will be an ideal response?

Criminal Justice

In the late spring of 1998, a high school student in Oregon killed his parents at their home and then drove to his school, where he killed two fellow students. Which best describes these wrongful deaths?

A. a serial murder B. a spree murder C. a mass murder D. a crime of passion

Criminal Justice

Systematically gathering qualitative data that offers a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the culture, environment, and social traits of individuals or individuals in a group is called ______.

a. ethnography b. triangulation c. purposive sampling d. Hawthorne effect

Criminal Justice