Summarize the racial and ethnic disparities throughout the various stages of the criminal justice process
What will be an ideal response?
Each of the following areas should be addressed in the way there are disparities:
Police—citizen encounters
Pretrial period
Trial
Sentencing
Imprisonment and corrections
Capital punishment
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Which of the following would not be an example of child sexual abuse?
a. indecent touching of a child b. burning with a lit cigarette c. rape d. forcing the child to view pornography
_______________ see themselves as needing to use threats and punishment in order to get compliance from the offender. These officers may also view the offender as a “lower class” of individual and are likely to see punitive methods of control as the only type of mechanism that the offender population will or can understand. They will likely have a morally judgmental view of their caseload. These officers will place the highest emphasis on control and protection of the public against offenders, and they will also be suspicious of offenders on their caseload.
a. Paternal officers b. Punitive officers c. Welfare workers d. Passive agents
In which court case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that detention of a juvenile before being adjudicated was constitutional?
A. Miranda v. Arizona B. Schall v. Martin C. J.D.B. v. North Carolina D. N.C. v. Com
Border officials may stop vehicles at fixed checkpoints without reasonable suspicion
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false