List and describe the three eras of policing.
What will be an ideal response?
Political era, reform era, and community problem-solving era
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People on probation lose all their due process rights
a. true b. false
Identify the number of states that have an appellate court below the state supreme court.
A. 1 B. 7 C. 27 D. 39
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.Legal realist criminologists argue that an overemphasis on punishing criminals escalates violence and advocates for restorative justice in place of imprisoning offenders. 2.The gender-ratio problem asks the question: Do traditional male-centered theories of crime apply to women? 3.In the 1990s, while the focus would shift from the “gangsta girl,” to the “violent girl,” to the “mean girl”, the message was the same: Girls are bad in ways that they never used to be. 4.There is still no theory of crime that is entirely female-specific, leaving 5.When all is said and done, capitalism is, without doubt, the best single predictor of criminal behavior, which leaves feminist theorists without much left to explain female offending in female terms.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. An inhabited dwelling, as it applies to burglary, is a dwelling that persons must actually reside in though the occupants may be temporarily absent as long as they intend to return. 2. The element of consent in extortion does not mean the victim voluntarily wishes to part with his property but that he does so to avoid unfavorable consequences. 3. Theft is a specific intent crime. To commit a theft the intent to steal must exist in the mind of the perpetrator at the time of the theft. The “intent to steal” is the intent to permanently deprive the owner of use or title to his or her property. 4. The elements of arson under PC 451, in addition to the actual burning are that the burning is willful and malicious, and is of an intentional or incendiary origin. 5. Possession of stolen goods is not itself sufficient to justify a conviction of theft. A person who is in possession of stolen property has a duty to explain his possession in order to remove the effect of possession as a circumstance, taken with other suspicious facts of guilt.