According to the 2008 Columbia Law Review article "Judging Innocence", two-thirds of the defendants making false confessions were juveniles, mentally retarded, or both

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


True

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What is a critique of citizen oversight?

A. Citizens are predisposed to dislike police, so citizen oversight cannot be fair B. Most citizen oversight programs only provide for disciplinary recommendations, not punitive power C. Citizen oversight implies that police cannot police themselves D. Police will not cooperate with citizen oversight, so it's not an effective program

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Social class:

a. has a small but consistent relationship with official measures of street crime by adults. b. is a concept used only when discussing white-collar crime. c. is recorded by the police when they arrest suspects and appears in statistical tables in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. d. is usually measured for juveniles by asking them how much education they expect to complete and what kinds of jobs they hope to have in the future.

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______ is crime-related information that immediately demonstrates the existence of a fact in question.

A. Direct evidence B. Indirect evidence C. Circumstantial evidence D. Exculpatory evidence

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_____ involves forcing people to pay the gang to be protected from dangerous neighborhood youths

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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