Explain why the best evidence rule has lost much of its significance in today’s courtrooms?
What will be an ideal response?
Student responses should include a discussion of the broad notion of what constitutes an original and the admissibility of duplicates.
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Detainees at this type of facility are at an increased risk for suicide:
A) Facilities that lock doors to sleeping rooms B) Facilities that house large populations of African Americans C) Facilities that are located in poor, low income neighborhoods D) A and B Only E) All of the Above
Which researcher conducted the classic study Delinquency in a Birth Cohort and found that 6% of the juveniles accounted for more than half of the crimes in their cohort?
a. Marvin Wolfgang b. Terrie Moffitt c. Robert Sampson d. Eleanor Glueck
Standard Identification data includes ____________, ____________, ___________ and _______________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The conclusion drawn from research on career-criminal prosecution programs like the San Diego Major Violator Unit was that
a. getting tough does not work if leniency is not the source of the problem
b. getting tough increased the deterrent effect, because career criminals were previously treated leniently
c. liberating the courtroom workgroup from traditional expectations moved more career-criminal cases from the third layer to the fourth layer of the wedding cake
d. these programs convinced the public that cases of career criminals should be treated like celebrated cases