What period refers to an outgrowth of the European Enlightenment during the eighteenth century where adherents rejected spiritualism and religious explanations for criminal behavior?
a. Neoclassicalism
b. Positivism
c. Classicalism
d. Renaissance
b
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Habeas corpus literally means ?you have the body.?
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Some people believe that good things will happen to good people and bad things will happen to bad people (or that if something bad happens to someone, he or she probably did something that instigated it)
This manner of belief is referred to as a. just world beliefs b. life equity beliefs c. just fate beliefs d. self-fulfilling beliefs
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Consent may only be given by people who are competent to give consent. 2. The Belmont Report established four basic ethical principles for the protection of human subjects. 3. Research ethics encourages us to understand rather than to judge it from a moral standpoint. 4. Experimental researchers whose research designs require some sort of deception should debrief subjects at the end. 5. The researcher’s commitment to maintaining privacy and confidentiality does not apply to observations in public places.
Which of the following is inaccurate regarding the similarities between the juvenile justice system and the adult criminal justice system?
a. Discretion in decision making is used in both the juvenile justice systems and the adult criminal justice system. b. The standard of arrest is similar for adults and juveniles. c. The standard of evidence in juvenile delinquency adjudications, as in adult criminal trials, is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. d. Juveniles and adults can be kept in detention without bail if they are considered dangerous.