List two drawbacks of overcriminalization.
What will be an ideal response?
Possibilities: Many such laws are virtually unenforceable; they often lead to corruption of criminal justice personnel and politicians; they undermine public respect for the law; they create illicit monopolies for organized crime groups; they criminalize activities and stigmatize their participants; they reflect no consistent, defensible theory of harm; they isolate and embitter offenders; penalties are often ineffective and/or inappropriate; such laws tie up law enforcement agencies in thankless tasks that could more appropriately be performed by other social agencies.
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Which is an example of a group designed to help improve the court system and the adjudication process?
a. Police watch groups b. Children's advocate groups c. Court-watch groups d. U. S. Supreme Court
What is a Mixed Sentence?
What will be an ideal response?
A typical ________ definition of crime is behavior that violates the norms or mores of society.
A. legal B. social C. psychological D. criminological
The unlawful killing of another person during the course of an unlawful act (other than a felony) or through negligence during the course of a lawful act is:
a. justifiable homicide. b. voluntary manslaughter. c. involuntary manslaughter. d. excusable homicide.