Which of the following statements is true regarding the Supreme Court?
A) Ideology has little to do with the ways Supreme Court justices rule on issues.
B) Whoever wins the 2016 presidential election will have little impact on the makeup of the Supreme Court.
C) In 2005 President George W. Bush appointed two new justices to the Supreme Court.
D) President Obama has thus far appointed one new justice to the Supreme Court, Elana Kagan.
E) President Bush's appointees have generally viewed as sympathetic to the rights of the criminal defendant.
C
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A. Illegal Drugs B. Natural Resources C. Twinkies D. Corn
Truth-in-sentencing laws or policies involve restriction or elimination of parole eligibility and good-time credits
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Terrorist movements need operational tools in order to
a. maintain their secrecy b. generate attacks c. maintain their control d. achieve their goals
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.Victimology, as a scientific discipline, has drawn its knowledge from research from a variety of backgrounds, such as law, social work, nursing, psychology, and medicine, with the most significant influence coming from criminology. 2.Some professionals argue that victimology is a discipline on its own and not a subfield of criminology and as such these two fields of study cannot be complimentary. 3.The term victimology is attributed to Benjamin Mendelsohn, who first used it in a set of papers presented in Bucharest, Romania in 1947. 4.While Frederick Wertham is attributed with first using the term victimology, it was Benjamin Mendelsohn who was said to have first published this term in his book The Show of Violence. 5.The move away from viewing crime against the victim to crime against the state began in the Middles Ages and was fully in place by the Industrial Revolution.