List three reasons for the unparalleled growth of crime laboratories in the United States since the 1960s.
What will be an ideal response?
First, Supreme Court decisions in the 1960s required police to place greater emphasis on securingscientifically evaluated evidence and all but eliminated confessions as a routine investigative tool. Second, the dramatic increase in U.S. crime rates led to a greater need for scientific examination of
criminal evidence. Third, the advent of DNA profiling led to a need for crime labs to expand their staffs and modernize their facilities to meet the demands of DNA technology.
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Any research that examines information from many units or cases across more than one point in time is called ____________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
What initially spurred the popularity of asset forfeiture?
a. RICO and CCE b. FinCEN and RISS c. NADDIS and EPIC d. DEA and ATF
______ describes groups whose goal is to keep some population group in their place, usually within the lower levels of class structure.
a. aggressive group-control vigilantism b. social group-control vigilantism c. regime-control vigilantism d. crime-control vigilantism
The gap between unemployment rates for African American men and every other group in society is higher when _____________.
A. prisons do not allow incarcerated individuals to work B. men who are behind bars are released C. men who are behind bars are included in the unemployment rate D. people in prison are not included in the unemployment rate