Potential problems and challenges of confessions for the criminal justice system include:

a. Police officers may use coercive psychological or physical methods to extract confessions.
b. The danger of a false confession resulting in a true confession is virtually nonexistent.
c. Wealthy and educated persons are more likely to talk to the police, thus benefitting from lesser charges of lighter sentences agreed to during plea bargaining.
d. It speeds up the adversarial process of the criminal justice system, expediting convictions.


a. Police officers may use coercive psychological or physical methods to extract confessions.

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_____________ can occur at any and all stages of the process

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Perhaps the most disturbing claim made against the more sophisticated organized crime groups is the one suggesting that these organizations are infiltrating and controlling large areas of legitimate business through ______________________

a. surreptitious videotaping b. designs and artifices c. business racketeering d. serial laundering

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Drug addiction is a punishable crime

a. True b. False

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Explain the way that jails are administered

What will be an ideal response?

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