Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Because inmates are in prison to be punished, the Eighth Amendment does not apply to them.
2. The Eighth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.
3. The Fourteenth Amendment has been used to provide due process rights to offenders.
4. Kansas’s Sexually Violent Predator Act is criminal law rather than civil law.
5. The Supreme Court has ruled the use of civil commitment laws against sex offenders to be unconstitutional.


1. FALSE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. FALSE

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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A) racial bias B) culture C) class struggle D) poverty

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The ______________ is justified by the need to deter police misconduct, but it exacts a high price to society in that "the criminal is to go free because the constable has blundered."

a. right to counsel b. prohibition against double jeopardy c. exclusionary rule d. the police deception rule

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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