Explain why policing in the United States needed to change in the 1800s
What will be an ideal response?
Good answers should discuss how population expansion, urbanization of larger cities, riots and immigration all produced a climate of corruption and crime. This spurred the need to develop more formal and less politically-controlled police departments, and changed the focus of the police departments from maintaining order to investigation and crime prevention.
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a. "muscle" or to do "dirty work" b. trafficking drugs and in controlling a neighborhood or community c. All of the above d. None of the above
The ________, which was prepared by noblemen for their own benefit, was intended to prohibit the king from seizing and imprisoning a nobleman merely on a whim
A) Magna Carta B) Assyrian laws C) Torah D) Code of Hammurabi
Which of the following is NOT a basis for the problem of sentencing disparities in criminal justice processing?
A. the mechanics of plea bargaining B. the discretionary power of sentencing judges C. the existence of mandatory sentencing statutes D. the structure of indeterminate sentencing guidelines
An estimated 10-20 percent of all insurance claims are fraudulent
a. True b. False