How do the Bill of Rights and democratically inspired legal restraints on the police help ensure personal freedoms in our society?
What will be an ideal response?
The Bill of Rights and legal restraints show that the police are not above the law. Police officers have to collect evidence to arrest suspects, but they must do so within the boundaries of the Fourth Amendment. Suspects may have to be released if police officers do not follow the law. Officers cannot arrest suspects without cause, thus limiting the likelihood that police use arrest to coerce innocent citizens. The Fifth Amendment constrains police interrogation procedures. Police are not able to use physical force, and the use of other types of coercion is also limited. These rights are central to democracy, and without them personal freedoms would suffer greatly.
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An appearance before a magistrate during which the legality of the defendant's arrest is initially assessed and the defendant is informed of the charges on which he or she is being heldis known as:
a. Apreliminary hearing. b. First appearance. c. Abail hearing. d. Aprobable cause hearing.
Explain the influence of the media on the development of the hacking subculture. Do all hackers agree with the way the media handles hacking? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
Relying on the plain view doctrine, the Minnesota v. Dickerson ruling stated that officers could seize non-threatening contraband, such as drugs, if its identity as contraband is immediately apparent to the sense of touch. This exception is best known as the
a. reasonable grasp motion b. plain touch exception. c. plain view doctrine. d. one-motion grasp exception.
Which of the following theoretical perspectives is based on the premise that human behavior is primarily hedonistic in nature?
a. Classicalism/Neoclassicalism b. Demonism c. Ecological determinism d. Marxism