The Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment was not relevant to the overwhelming majority of death penalty cases, until the Supreme Court incorporated it to apply it to the states in the case of ___________________

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Robinson v. California

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Under the ________, employers who fail to warn employees of systems monitoring or allow employees access to electronic mail for personal reasons as well may lose some of their monitoring powers over employees due to an elevated expectation of privacy

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According to King, Keohane and Verba (1994), what are the three criteria for good social research questions?

What will be an ideal response?

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The central notion to is that one’s conduct must take into account moral issues.

a. Metaethics b. Normative ethics c. Applied ethics d. Method ethics

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

1. Family violence covers a broad range of acts, with the legal criminal and civil definition of family violence varying according to state and federal law. 2. Despite the lack of definitional consensus, family violence can be categorized into three groups: child abuse, elder abuse, and financial abuse. 3. The overwhelming majority of victims of IPV are women, but men are victimized, too. 4. Intimate partner violence occurs in heterosexual and same-sex relationships, with both men and women suffering from this form of violence. 5. It is also estimated that an average of 1 in 7 women and 1 in 5 men are likely to experience some form of intimate partner violence over the course of their lifetime, highlighting the magnitude of IPV in society.

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