What issue increases the problems of liability for employers because it means they will be legally responsible for the actions of their employees?
a. strict liability
b. negligence
c. intentional tort
d. vicarious liability
D
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A few years ago, the Bureau of Justice Statistics announced findings that
male military veterans were less than half as likely as nonveteran men of the same age to be in prison (the rates reported were 630 versus 1,390 per 100,000 male prisoners, respectively). Does this mean that we can say with confidence that military service decreases a man's likelihood of committing a criminal offense? What other influences might be operating to lower the likelihood of crime commission by military veterans? What will be an ideal response?
According to the U.S. Supreme Court, there is an exception to the no-duty-to-protect-rule, called the special-relationship exception. That special relationship is:
a. dependent on the crime committed. b. custody. c. when a suspect is being interrogated. d. when a warrant is being served.
Under the Batson ruling, the defendant must prove that the prosecution's use of a peremptory challenge was racially motivated. Doing so requires a number of legal steps. Which of the following is not one of these steps? a. First, the defendant must make a prima facie case that there has been discrimination during venire. b. The defendant must show that he or she is a member of a recognizable
racial group and that the prosecutorhas used peremptory challenges to remove members of this group from the jury pool. c. The defendant must show that these facts and other relevant circumstances raise the possibility that theprosecutor removed the prospective jurors solely because of their race. d. A defendant may contest race-based peremptory challenges only if the defendant is not of the same race as the excluded jurors.