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

1. Winston Churchill said, “I see that the state in which the law is above the rulers, and the rulers are the inferiors of the law, has salvation, and the very blessings which the Gods can confer.”
2. In 2008, an estimated 1 of every 100 adults were in jail or prison in the United States.
3. The hands-off doctrine articulates the reluctance of the judiciary to interfere with the management and administration of prisons.
4. In Cooper, the Supreme Court ruled that state prison inmates could sue state officials in federal courts under the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
5. Inmates have the legal right to challenge the legality of their confinement but not the conditions of their confinement.


1. False
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. False

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1. public health model a. tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury 2. primary prevention b. has grown since 2000 3. secondary prevention c. focuses on preventing recidivism, or repeat offending, by offenders and on protecting society from these offenders 4. tertiary prevention d. evidence seized in violation of the 4th Amendment is not permissible at trial 5. poverty rate e. aims to identify practices and situations that put certain individuals at risk for illness or injury 6. physical incivilities f. these policies have swelled our prison population without lowering the crime rate 7. Dr. Benjamin Spock g. author of Baby and Child Care 8. mandatory sentences h. stresses the need to identify the social and other causes of disease so that efforts can be launched to target these causes 9. present drug laws i. have unfairly targeted the African-American and Latino communities 10. expanded community policing j. graffiti, broken windows, abandoned buildings, and strewn trash

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Explain the meaning of effective assistance of counsel

What will be an ideal response?

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The pizzu was named after the small hand of an infant and the mafia saying "to wet the diaper" as it applies to the extortion of money

a. True b. False

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This is a feature of survey research that makes it popular to use

A) Versatility B) Omnibus approach C) Focused D) Simple

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