What percentage of cases reported to police are actually discovered to be false?

a. 2%
b. 5%
c. 10%
d. 25%


b. 5%

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Like the "good faith" exception to the exclusionary rule, the Court has found that information or evidence, which is collected independently of the illegal police action, is not admissible

a. True b. False

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Create a fictional crime prevention strategy, and give examples (scenarios) of how crime displacement, crime diffusion, and crime extinction may occur with the crime prevention strategy.

What will be an ideal response?

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When a defendant makes a motion for a continuance, he or she most always must also agree to:

A) Waive time. B) Remain in jail. C) Post bail. D) A jury trial.

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According to research on chronic offenders, official records make it very difficult to ________

A) measure violent crimes B) investigate sociopathic attitudes C) document chronic offenders’ social class D) predict chronic offenders’ criminal career outcomes

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