Cj 395 - 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...

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...

What was the purpose of punishment in the 15th century and how was it inflicted? - Answer Punishment was inflicted by disabling those found guilty and different forms of elimination was chosen as consequence Banishment, transportation, or death What was the reputation of prisons in the 16th century v. today? - Answer Prisons were used as alternatives to elimination in 16th century. Today prison is supposed to be one of the most extreme forms of punishment with exception. What is ret...

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...

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...

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...

Which of the following is not one of the primary challenges faced by the wrongfully convicted who are exonerated? - Answer locating family The Black Muslim movement in California prisons can be traced to African in the late 1950s - Answer False in 1740, ____ imposed the death penalty on slaves and free Blacks for burning or destroying any grain, commodities, or manufactured goods - Answer South Carolina The thesis that states replaced lynchings with the death penalty is known as - Answe...

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 ...