The doctrine used when the intention to harm one individual inadvertently causes a second person to be hurt instead is called

a. transferred intent
b. manslaughter
c. voluntary manslaughter
d. involuntary manslaughter


a

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The _______________ required that at the time a person committed an offense,

he/she was operating under a defect of reason from a disease of the mind and that such a defect resulted in the individual not being able to recognize the nature and quality of his/her actions, or not knowing that such actions were wrong a. Durham test b. irresistible impulse c. M'Naughten test d. Lord Bracton test

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There are ________ people with HIV/AIDS in prisons and jails as/than in the general population of the United States.

A. fewer B. at least 50% C. more D. an equal number of

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According to the first and second National Inmate Survey of sexual victimization, approximately ________ percent of the American prison inmates experienced sexual victimization.

A. 9 B. 4.5 C. 15.5 D. 32

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Congress began investigations of private security firms as a result of the strikebreaking debacle at the Carnegie Steel Works in 1892 . The result was that many states:

a. passed laws prohibiting armed mercenaries from entering their borders b. created private police forces c. decided to Federalize their police forces d. established state police forces

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