Exploring Crime and Legal Perspectives Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

a police officer in the United States may only briefly detain and frisk a person if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in a crime.

in Frendak v. United States the court ruled that a competent defendant, who experts testified was probably insane when he committed the crime, cannot be forced to use the insanity defense.

the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants aimed to prevent girls in London from becoming prostitutes, criminals and alcoholics by training them as domestic servants.

Ryan Holle is serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for letting his roommate borrow his car that was then used in a crime.

footprints have revealed clues about the activity of criminals and dinosaurs, and have also been the source of several myths and legends.

"bunchers" are criminals involved in kidnapping pets from residences, trapping stray animals illegally, and selling them to laboratories for animal testing purposes.

biosocial criminology predicts that left handed individuals are more likely to engage in criminal behavior than right handed ones.

change of venue is the legal term for moving a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or the defendant.

intoxication is never recognized as an excuse for crime, but settled insanity due to substance abuse is.

Exploring Crime and Legal Perspectives

1 What role did Jean Miez play in the movie Crime?

2 What role did David Hovan play in the movie Crime?

3 These ________ realities remain fluid and often contentious.

4 What role did Andrea Whitburn play in the movie Crime?

5 In the United States since 1930, the FBI has tabulated ________ (UCR) annually from crime data submitted by law enforcement agencies across the United States.

6 Who played 9 the movie Crime?

7 Who played 8 the movie Crime?

8 These laws vary from time to time and from place to place: note variations in gambling laws, for example, and the prohibition or encouragement of ________ in history.

9 2380 BC–2360 BC, ________) had an early code that has not survived; a later king, Ur-Nammu, left the earliest extant written law-system, the Code of Ur-Nammu (ca.

10 The Romans systematized law and applied their system across the ________.

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