The ______ act aims to protect young children from sexual offenders by increasing the severity of punishment; a mandatory sentence of 25 years in prison and lifetime electronic monitoring for adult offenders who have been convicted of lewd, unchaste, or licentious acts against a victim younger than 12 years old.
a. Megan Kanka
b. Jessica Lumford
c. Jacob Wetterling
d. Michael Hostteder
b. Jessica Lumford
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Identify the three characteristics that are common to prison gangs but not necessarily common to those gangs based primarily on the street.
What will be an ideal response?
Which metaphor best describes the due process model of the criminal justice process?
a. Horse race b. Obstacle course c. Assembly line d. Funeral procession
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. In contemporary America, the Guardian Angels, a group founded in 1979 in the Bronx, is still active in a number of communities. Identified by their red berets, its members patrol the subways, streets, and neighborhoods in order to prevent crime and have sometimes been labeled vigilantes by police. 2. ISIS stands for Islamic State in Syria sometimes referred to as ISIL. 3. In hindsight, pre 9/11 Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks—terrible as they were—were only the prelude to far worse violence. 4. Guerrilla war is also sometimes called low-intensity warfare or insurgency warfare. 5. Government is not capable of committing terrorist acts.
In the interest of being unambiguous and precise, survey questions should:
a. have questions with no more than 40 words in them b. be generalizable c. be clear d. be reliable