About _____ percent of each sex commits at least one act of violence (contained in a Conflict Tactics Scales [CTS] list ranging from slapping to using a knife or gun) against a spouse in a given year
a. 4
b. 8
c. 12
d. 19
Answer: 12
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In 2013, U.S. officials announced that they would question 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bomber, before reading him his Mirandarights. What exception to the Miranda ruling allowed them to conduct the interview?
a. Inevitable discovery b. The right to privacy c. The Patriot Act d. Public Safety exception
According to your textbook authors, community supervision is beginning to utilize military capabilities to keep track of offenders. _______________ uses 24 military satellites to determine the exact location of a coordinate. By using the satellite monitoring and remote tracking, offenders can be tracked to their exact location.
a. Global positioning system (GPS) b. Home detention c. Day reporting centers d. Drug testing
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Which statement most accurately describes the "inevitable discovery" exception to the exclusionary rule?
a. If the government can show that the discovery of the tainted evidence was inevitable, the evidence will be admissible, even though it was initially illegally obtained. b. If the defense can show that the evidence was obtained in violation of the Constitution, that evidence is not admissible, even though the contested evidence would have been discovered by lawful means in the absence of police misconduct. c. The exclusionary rule does not apply if the officer made an illegal search but later obtained a search warrant that particularly described the evidence seized. d. If the inevitable discovery exception is to apply as an exception to the exclusionary rule, the government must show beyond a reasonable doubt that the contested evidence would have been discovered by lawful means.