Explain why an officer may frisk a passenger in a vehicle who is not suspected of criminal activity.

What will be an ideal response?


The Supreme Court held that the interest in officer safety outweighed the slight intrusion into individual privacy in this situation. The Court noted that a passenger has the same motivation as the driver to use violence to prevent the officers from detecting criminal activity unrelated to the reason for the traffic stop.

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The subjective test of entrapment is concerned with a defendant's ___________________ to commit a crime

Fill in the blank with correct word.

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The 9/11 Commission Report, published in 2004, makes considerable mention of the involvement of the ______ ______ and its growth and training in Afghanistan, its members' ability to move around Europe and the United States, and ultimately, its

ability to plan and carry out, undetected, the largest terrorist event in recent history. Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The process of ___________ makes some forms of behavior illegal

a. Legalization b. Illegalization c. Statutization d. Criminalization

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Which of the following is not one of the four correctional philosophies?

A. retribution B. incarceration C. deterrence D. rehabilitation

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