Which common law crime punished the unlawful collection of money by a government official but was expanded to include private individuals?
a. extortion
b. contempt
c. blackmail
d. solicitation
a. extortion
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The type of hostage taker who believes they are being directed to commit their crime by some supernatural force is which of the following?
a. Ideological b. Thought-disordered c. Domestic d. Frustration-driven
A law that requires individuals to be a certain age before obtaining a driver’s license is likely subject to what form of scrutiny?
a. strict scrutiny b. maximum scrutiny c. rational basis test d. intermediate scrutiny
Falsifying patrol logs to make the numbers come out right in response to alleged racial profiling practices is called a. disparity
b. ghosting. c. balancing. d. corruption. e. rigging.
In the context of using different benchmarks to study traffic stop data, a problem with the approach of internal benchmarking is that
A. it cannot be applied to beat officers. B. it cannot be applied to police officers who are receiving their in-service training. C. it is not useful if all police officers are engaging in racial profiling. D. it is not useful if all police officers belong to the same department.