Assigned counsel are attorneys employed full-time by the government to provide defense services to those offenders who cannot afford their own attorneys

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


False

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Which of the following is not one of the four elements at the core of the COPPS philosophy, particularly in Japan, per Skolnick and Bayley?

a. Community-based crime prevention c. A crime-fighting orientation b. Decentralization of command d. Increased accountability to the public

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Under the leadership of the Fielding brothers in the mid-eighteenth century a core of fifty men was organized and paid as police officers. They became known as the

a. Bobbies. b. Bow Street Runners. c. magistrates. d. vigilantes.

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The ideas and principles that society considers important at a given time and in a given place have no bearing on a court's decision on what exactly constitutes due process in a specific case

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

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During which decade did police officers insist on greater procedural safeguards which have been reflected in statutes enacted in many states, generally known as the Peace Officers Bill of Rights?

a. 1960s b. 1980s c. 1990s d. 2000s

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