_____ are crimes punishable by a fine or by confinement for up to a year.
A. Organized crimes
B. Felonies
C. Misdemeanors
D. Assassinations
Answer: C
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What will be an ideal response?
Once a person has been tried for a particular crime and the trial has ended in a decision of not guilty, that person cannot be tried again for the same crime. This concept is known as protection against
a. unfair incrimination. b. procedural error. c. double entendre. d. double jeopardy.
A group of federal judges very reluctantly estimated the probability of true guilt to be only about 75%. That would mean that 25% of convicts are wrongfully convicted.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The Children's Aid Society can be described as:
a. A child saving organization that took children from the streets of large cities and placed them with farm families on the prairie. b. A child saving organization that took children away from abusive parents and placed them in shelters. c. The organization, created by the child savers, whose primary focus was on preventing delinquency by picking up children and placing them in reform schools. d. The organization, created by the Quakers, to prevent children from being abused by punishing the parents by criminally prosecuting them.