Some youths in the juvenile justice system merit classification as serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders, but as a group they constitute a ________ minority of the juvenile population
a. Small
b. Large
c. Disproportionate
d. Minor
a
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The U.S. Marshals Service was the first federal police service to be established. 2. Typically, highway patrol officers are empowered to provide law enforcement service anywhere in the state, whereas state police have limited authority based on type of offense, jurisdiction, or assignment to specific duties. 3. All states have some type of state police agency. 4. Some police officers may be volunteers and not paid for their services. 5. The quality of training of police officers remains standardized throughout the United States.
Supreme Court justices are utilizing the same social characterization of young people who engage in delinquency that _____ reformers did over a century ago—that of youth as people who are developing mentally and socially, deserve time to do so, and can redeem themselves in light of any mistakes that they make during their childhood and adolescent years.
a. progressive b. Republican c. child savers d. crime control
Sexual relations (nonmarital) became a crime in the United States if
a. they are performed in public b. they are performed for profit c. they are between a therapist and a patient and in violation of the laws of that state d. All of these choices
The U.S. Supreme Court set the standard for consent searches in:
a. Katz v. United States (1967). b. Carroll v. United States (1925). c. Chimel v. California (1969). d. Schneckcloth v. Bustamonte (1973).