Who are the most likely targets of street robberies?Why?

What will be an ideal response?


Those who are most likely to become victims of street muggers are elderly individuals and people who are drunk in public. The unarmed robber relies on opportunity rather than a strategic plan in selecting a victim. The most likely victim is one who walks alone on a secluded street after dark.

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a. 1960s b. 1970s c. 1980s d. 1990s

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A compelled surgical intrusion into an individual?s body for evidence implicates expectations of privacy and security of such magnitude that the intrusion may be ?unreasonable? even if likely to produce evidence of a crime

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Magistrates’ courts in England and Wales may be presided over by a(n):

a. unpaid lay magistrate or a paid district judge. b. Chief Constable or Assistant Chief Constable. c. barrister. d. solicitor

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Elders are more susceptible to __________ than younger adults, which is defined as difficulty distinguishing what has been personally witnessed from what may have been heard from someone else, or a problem identifying the exact source of information

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

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