The legal rule that requires a criminal prosecution be initiated within a specific time after commission of the offense is known as:

A) the statute of limitations. B) the Temporal Doctrine.
C) the rule against perpetuities. D) Wharton's Rule.


A

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Which of the following is generally thought of as a line employee?

A) Police Officers B) Watch Commander C) Chief of Police D) none of the above

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_________ are concerned with the actual impacts of legislation or the extent to which the policy actually achieves its intended results

a. Policy evaluations b. Legislative evaluations c. Judicial evaluations d. Executive evaluations e. Audits

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When supervisors can be transferred, keeping their rank, from one police department to another it is called ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. A country’s police, court, and corrections systems are essentially independent of, and therefore uninfluenced by, that country’s political system. 2. When countries are compared in terms of the process they follow to accomplish such things as pretrial detention, the functions/procedures strategy is being used. 3. Based on restrictions set in United States Supreme Court decisions, we would not expect the police to be able to independently detain a suspect for more than 15 hours before a judicial officer reviews the legality of the detention 4. Authentic classification strategies allow some predictivity regarding the group’s members.

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