In the case of Kirby v. Illinois (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the right to a lawyer depends on whether a person has been formally charged with an offense. Discuss the reasoning for this distinction
What will be an ideal response?
The reasoning for this distinction is that the right to counsel does not arise until what
is considered a "critical stage of the prosecution.". If no charge has been filed, there
is not even a court file, the prosecutor has probably not even been involved in the
case yet.
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According to life course theory, childhood victimization may be a ______ that places individuals on trajectories for either future victimization or future offending.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
What characteristics are common among child abductors?
What will be an ideal response?
Before its redesign in 1979, all of these were examples of possible shortcomings with NCVS EXCEPT?
a. Telescoping b. Blurred events c. Decompression d. Memory Loss
The initial link of associating profiling to racism or ethnic discrimination is most likely:
a. An unintended result of the work of the F.B.I.'s Behavioral Science Unit's research in profiling. b. The result of Walter Langer's effort to develop a criminal profile of Adolph Hitler. c. The work by DEA to develop ways to identify people involved in drug smuggling. d. A result of the popularity of the movie "The Silence of the Lambs" which dealt with profiling serial killers.