Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Firearms are used far more often in self-defense than to commit crime or violent offense
2. In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional in its entirety
3. Studies have consistently found that the death penalty does deter crime.
4. Mandatory Minimum Sentences are mostly applied to drug- and gun-related offenses
5. One of the major criticism against the US Criminal Justice system is that it has been overusing imprisonment for nonviolent drug offenses
1. FALSE
2. FALSE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE
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How did the practice of presidential elections change during the first party system in the United States?
A. As the Democratic-Republicans grew strong, its members in state legislatures coordinated to select the best candidate to represent the party in the presidential election. B. The fragmented nature of the party system meant that Congress played a major role in choosing the President so this limited the influence of the executive branch. C. As competing slates of delegates pledged to support specific presidential candidates, the candidates replaced individual electors as the objects of voters' decisions. D. The Federalists organized the first national party convention to build popular appeals to the electorate.
The Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction
a. is to be found in Article III of the Constitution. b. is to be found in the preamble of the Constitution. c. is defined by the president. d. is defined by Congress. e. is defined in the Declaration of Independence.
In a study comparing two nonequivalent groups, a selection-history confound occurs when
a. some event intervenes between pretest and posttest and affects just one of the groups. b. some event intervenes between pretest and posttest and affects both selected groups equally. c. selection influences one of the groups and history influences the other. d. some historical event causes a failure of the random assignment procedure.
The results of a study on nightmares in a sample of psychotherapy patients can be
A) Generalized to all medical patients. B) Generalized to the general population. C) Generalized only to other psychotherapy clients. D) Generalized only to psychotherapists.