The framework for the acknowledgement and advancement in services offered to victims has developed from ______.

a. the study of victimology
b. the expansion of state compensation programs
c. the expanding body of victim legislation
d. social movements made during the mid-to-late 1900s


a. the study of victimology

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In 1987, the National Center for State Courts received a grant from theBureau of Justice Assistance to create its __________, which was chargedwith developing performance standards that could be used by the statecourts

a. Commission on Trial Court Performance Standards b. Committee to Improve Court Performance Standards c. Organization for Judicial Performance Standards d. Administrative and Court Performance Standards Group

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Describe the promotion process in a typical police department.

What will be an ideal response?

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SCOTUS has ruled that a judge's failure to ask a defendant if he or she knowingly and voluntarily entered a guilty plea in open court:

a. is not reversible, if there is strong evidence of the defendant's guilt. b. is not reversible, if the defendant was represented by counsel during the entry of the plea. c. is reversible, because the judge accepted a plea without an affirmative showing that it was freely given and the defendant knew what he or she was agreeing to. d. may be grounds for an appeal, if the defendant can show the judge was aware the defendant was not of sound mind.

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In Warden v. ____________________, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized a hot-pursuit exception to the warrant requirement

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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