Exam 12: Power, Violence, and Crime

The official FBI crime rate rose sharply in the United States between 1960 and 1990.

The 1963 Gideon v. Wainwright ruling held that equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment requires that free legal counsel be appointed for all indigent defendants in all criminal cases.

The federal antidrug policy can be divided into three categories. Which of the following is NOT one of those categories?

Controversy over the death penalty stems from protections found in the Eighth Amendment against

All EXCEPT which of the following are given as reasons for the decline in crime rates in the 1990s.

About 90 percent of the criminal cases brought to trial are disposed of by guilty pleas before a judge through a process known as plea bargaining. In exchange for this plea, which of the following are possible outcomes of the bargain?

Compare and contrast the sociological and psychological perspectives on crime.

Which of the following Amendments to the U.S. Constitution protects the rights of defendants?

Arrested persons are entitled to go free prior to trial unless their freedom would unreasonably endanger society or unless there is a reason to believe they would

A __________ is a court order directing police who are holding a person in custody to bring the prisoner into court to explain the reasons for confinement.

A black male is almost how many times more likely to be murdered than a white male?

The victimization rate is less than the official crime rate.