Proximate cause is established when there is a factor that ______.
A. indicates one party was morally responsible for harm to another
B. contributed in large part to an event that caused harm
C. indirectly led to an event that caused harm
D. may be responsible for some harm
B. contributed in large part to an event that caused harm
You might also like to view...
Perception plays a major role in a police officer's decision to use deadly force
a. True b. False
What major challenges do drones present to privacy and security?
What will be an ideal response?
Which president’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice suggested that minority officers would not only have a greater understanding of the needs of these communities, but would also have greater credibility?
a. Lyndon B. Johnson b. John F. Kennedy c. Jimmy Carter d. Harry S. Truman
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. According to labeling theorists, how the public and society react to a crime and the criminal is not very integral to the creation of crime and deviance. 2. According to labeling theory, people who are stigmatized as criminal often lose many of their prosocial relationships. 3. Radical scholars assessed the premise that extralegal factors, such as an offender’s race, class, and gender, are more important in regulating criminal justice labeling than are legal factors, such as the seriousness of the offense or the offender’s past record. 4. Labeling theory in recent years is enjoying a resurgence of interest and growing empirical support because recent literature claims that state intervention is a criminogenic risk factor, rather than the major cause of crime. 5. The recent movement of small amounts of marijuana being reduced to a minor violation not involving jail time is a form of decriminalization.