What is a Probative Value?

What will be an ideal response?


The degree to which a particular item of evidence is useful in, and relevant to, providing something important in a trial.

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Explain how parole works in light of mandatory release and discretionary release.

What will be an ideal response?

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According to deterrence theory, punishment for a deviant act reduces the likelihood that a person will repeat the act. A researcher decides that it must therefore be likely that tougher gun control laws would reduce the gun crimes of repeat offenders. This is an example of:

a. Deductive reasoning b. Sample generalizability c. Inductive reasoning d. Implementation

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A(n) ______ involves the police taking control of a person or thing because of a violation of law.

A. arrest B. search C. seizure D. interrogation

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Japanese male offenders were more likely than their American male counterparts to murder using this method

a. guns b. poisons c. stabbing d. strangulation

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