Which of the following factors is NOT among the plausible explanations presented by Cole and Smith for the growth in the U.S. prison population?
a. tougher sentencing
b. prison construction
c. the war on drugs
d. increased arrests
e. increased immorality
e
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Which form of corruption is understood to include accepting payments for not making an arrest or issuing a summons that in ordinary course of events would have been made or issued.
a. kickbacks b. opportunistic theft c. shakedowns d. traffic fix
____________________ is the power of the State to act on behalf of the child and provide care and protection equivalent to that of a parent
a. Parens protector c. Civil law b. Criminal law d. Parens patriae
As a witness in a criminal trial an officer should be perceived by the jury as;
A. Very interested in seeing that the accused is convicted and punished. B. Hard on crime, and as such, will not tolerated the criminal behavior of the accused. C. Prejudicial D. An "objective public servant" presenting only the facts of the case.
Statements made to a physician for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment _____
a. may be both privileged and an exception to the hearsay rule b. are an exception to the hearsay rule only if part of an excited utterance c. are an exception only if offered in the form of medical records d. are not an exception in any jurisdiction