Which type of offenders do jails hold?

What will be an ideal response?


Those pretrial offenders, awaiting trial, who were not granted bail or pretrial release and those offenders who have been convicted of misdemeanors and sentenced to jail for less than 12 months as part of their punishment.

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Typically an arrest in a robbery case is based upon the physical evidence at the scene and not on eyewitness testimony

a. True b. False

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According to West (1997), caring should be central to the meaning of ______.

a. legal justice b. peacemaking c. developmental theory d. personal relationships

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____________________ cause is a standard of proof that must be satisfied for any search or seizure to occur. An arrest is legally defined as a seizure and therefore falls under the same requirement for probable cause as a search

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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In the early twentieth century, ____ copied the tactics of revolutionaries.

a. governments    
b. nationalists     
c. pro-democracy forces    
d. insurgents 

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