This is an insanity test that focuses on the defendant's ability to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct based on a mental disease or defect

a. M'Naghten Test.
b. Irresisitible Impulse Test.
c. Product Test.
d. Federal Test.


A

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1. One of the oldest American prisons was a copper mine. 2. The first jail built in America was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1790. 3. Rotary jails were like squirrel cages segmented into small, “pie-shaped cells” that the sheriff could spin at will. 4. The Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, also served as a mine. 5. Debtors’ prisons were outlawed in America after the Revolutionary War.

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The theory world and real world can differ for which of the following reasons?

a. The Supreme Court sometimes makes decisions on excruciatingly detailed matters that have almost no applicability to most law enforcement officers most of the time.
b. The Supreme Court frequently hands down decisions that would seem to have dramatic effects on the nature of law enforcement, but actually involve issues that are already being addressed by many police agencies.
c. What the courts say and what the police do can differ simply as a consequence of some aspect of the U.S. legal system.
d. All of the above.

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