Briefly describe the events surrounding the bizarre agent-confidential informant relationship involving the case of Gregory Scarpa of the Colombo crime Family and his FBI handler
What will be an ideal response?
Scarpa (the "Grim Reaper") was arrested 10 times over the 35 years between 1950 and 1985, but served only 30 days in jail. Therefore, his mob-mates suspected he was an informant. He dispelled their suspicions when he shot a guy in the head right in front of his comrades.
J. Edgar Hoover hired him to find out where the bodies of the three missing Mississippi civil rights workers were. He was successful in that task.
Scarpa had committed at least four murders while he was an informant for the FBI.
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What will be an ideal response?
The crime control model is often aligned with a more ______ perspective.
a. liberal b. socialist c. moderate d. conservative
In the context of explaining corruption, police officials prefer the rotten apple theory because
A. it helps the public to understand why some officers are honest and some are corrupt. B. it directly shifts the onus of accountability on the citizens. C. it allows them to blame a few individuals without having to investigate larger problems in a department. D. it adequately explains the long history of corruption in a police department.
Who coined the term “Victimology”?
a. Hans von Hentig b. Stephen Schaefer c. Marvin Wolfgang d. Benjamin Mendelsohn