A defendant who has been acquitted in criminal court can be tried in civil court without violating the principle of double jeopardy.

a. true
b. false


a. true

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a. codes of ethics. b. ombudsmen c. strict supervision of day-to-day operations d. few educational requirements.

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What are the strengths of MST and FFT as approaches to serious delinquents?

What will be an ideal response?

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Sometimes police middle managers suffer from the perception that their authority is not paralleled by appropriate responsibility

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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

1. About half of the white collar crime defendants charged in federal cases go to trial. 2. There is evidence that in criminal cases, jurors are more likely to hold corporations more blameworthy than individual executives for wrongdoing. 3. Trial jurors find it overwhelmingly easy to discriminate between collective and individual accountability in white collar criminal cases. 4. Unlike conventional offenders, high-status white collar crime offenders tend to face juries that consist of people very much like themselves. 5. Ordinary jurors typically have no more difficulty in understanding the details of complex white collar crime cases once these are adequately explained to them.

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