Explain why a public safety exception to the Miranda Warning was adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: In New York v. Quarles, the Supreme Court stated that Miranda warnings need not be given in a situation
involving a threat to public safety. The Court held that if there is an objectively reasonable need to
protect the police or the public from immediate danger that the police could forgo the warning.
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. During the last few decades, crime rates fell yet incarceration rates climbed. 2. Judges are allowed to punish repeat offenders more severely than first-time offenders. 3. Research on gender bias in sentencing suggests that judges do not take offenders’ family circumstances into consideration in making pretrial release and sentencing decisions. 4. Teenage defendants tend to receive harsher sentences than young adults. 5. Research indicates that Black men convicted of murdering Black men are sentenced to death at a higher rate than any other group.
Which of the following statements regarding elderly inmates is FALSE?
A) Elderly inmates are less likely to be imprisoned for robbery and burglary than other prisoners. B) Elderly inmates are more likely to have committed homicide and sexual offenses than other prisoners. C) Elderly inmates are vulnerable to victimization by younger inmates. D) The percentage of elderly inmates in prisons may be significantly greater than their proportions in the general population.
Which of the following terms is a theory of institutional corrections, popular during the 1940s and 1950s, in which crime was seen as symptomatic of personal illness in need of treatment?
A. crisis intervention B. medical model C. hands-off philosophy D. radical nonintervention
Within days of Iraq's invasion in 1990, King Fahad allowed U.S. troops into the kingdom to help defend the country. In November 1990, he announced that plans were being made for the formation of a consultative council; there was some feeling that this was done in response to criticism that he had not consulted widely enough before allowing foreign troops into the kingdom
a. Iran b. Kuwait c. Saudi Arabia d. Qatar