Cj 395 stuvia Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Minorities continue to be disproportionately thee victims of police use of force and racial profiling. - Answer true Bail statutes require judges to consider risk factors that include all of the following except: - Answer Race of Victim. Race can now be considered when removing a juror from the jury pool. - Answer False The first publicly funded municipal police departments were established in: - Answer Southern Cities Plessy v. Ferguson court ruling declared: - Answer separate but e...

A nurse researcher studied adults' intentions to donate blood, as well as their actual donation behavior. Which theory or model did the nurse researcher likely use? - Answer The Theory of Planned Behavior A nurse researcher studied how a woman's practice of breast self-examination is affected by her perception of the risk of breast cancer. Which theory or model did the nurse researcher likely use? - Answer The Health Belief Model Descriptive theory plays an important role in which type o...

Jurisdiction - Answer -Refers to a particular geographic area containing a defined legal authority. -"Power" of a court to adjudicate cases and issue orders Levels of Courts - Answer U.S. Magistrate, District Court, Court of Appeals, Supreme Court= Federal State Lower Courts, State Trial Courts, State Court of Appeals, State Supreme Court, Supreme Court= State Corpus Delicti - Answer Body of the crime (not the victim) Degrees of Crime - Answer The grades of crime ranked according...

two questions about evidence - Answer what should be admitted? once admitted, what what can it be used for? types of evidence - Answer direct and circumstantial direct evidence - Answer evidence which proves or disproves a fact in issue without any reason or interference being drawn on the part of the fact finder ex: from an eyewitness circumstantial evidence - Answer evidence which indirectly proves or disproves a fact in issue. fact finder must reason or draw an interference from th...

Everything done with each other as human beings in all kinds of relationships is the definition of ___ - Answer human relations the police-community relations movement (PCR) developed out of the ___ - Answer riots and civil disorders of the 1960s the human relations training program that is designed to provide participants an opportunity to learn more about themselves and their impact on others is called ___ - Answer sensitivity training James Q. Wilson said that the single most strikin...

Preparatory Activity Crimes Timeline - Answer Criminal thoughts-> Solicitation -> conspiracy-> Attempt-> Completed crime Attempt - Answer To try to do something illegal and then due to circumstances outside of the actor's control, there is a failure in the process Target Crime - Answer a crime that is the object of an attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy Two intents - Answer Intended to do an action without criminal act (aim a gun but not aiming to kill you), intend to aim ...

Criminal Procedure - Answer Regulates the steps by which one who commits a crime is tried and punished Criminal Law - Answer An attempt to balance liberty and freedom of the individual and a very organized society. Prevent acts that are not socially desirable. Protect society as a hole and by doing this to protect the rights of individuals Objectives of Criminal Law - Answer Allow individuals to coexist in society, defines the wrongs that are considered necessary to protect individuals, ai...

Victimology - Answer is a subdiscipline of specialization in criminology and is the scientific study of physical, emotional, and financial harm inflicted on people because of criminal acts Victimologists - Answer ask why some individuals, households, and entities are targeted while others are not. scrutinize patterns and trends to develop victimization prevention strategies and risk-reduction tactics. Criminology - Answer can be defined as encompassing the scientific study of illegal activ...

it is likely the death penalty is still used as a punishment in the United States because... - Answer of strong public support during the slave era, masters were not compensated for the execution of their slaves. - Answer false this philosophy is based on the premise that since the criminal justice system works for most citizens, we can tolerate it when a small number of citizens are wrongfully convicted. - Answer Utilitarian according to recent homicide research, when this segment of s...

Most crime is inter-racial: - Answer False About 1/3 of all U.S. presidents have been Catholics - Answer False Opium smoking was common among Chinese immigrants and confined to Chinatowns between 1850 and 1870? - Answer True Japanese Americans initially lived in bachelor (all male) communities - Answer False Conflict can occur over competition for a society's scarce resources - Answer True There is usually some grain of truth in racial/ ethnic sterotypes - Answer True Very few...