According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), violent crime rates declined in the United States beginning in the 1990s.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which act further extended the classification of sexual predators by creating a three-tier classification mandatory for sex offender sentencing, risk assessment, and treatment services?
A. Jacob Wetterling
B. Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety
C. Pam Lynchner
D. Sexually Violent Offender
E. Service Delivery
Typically, custodial staff and mental health staff have collaborated to optimize responses to suicidal inmates.
a. True
b. False
The _______________ required that at the time a person committed an offense,
he/she
was operating under a defect of reason from a disease of the mind and that such a defect
resulted in the individual not being able to recognize the nature and quality of his/her
actions, or not knowing that such actions were wrong
a. Durham test
b. irresistible impulse
c. M'Naughten test
d. Lord Bracton test
A defendant is not responsible for criminal conduct where he/she, as a result of mental disease or defect,
did not possess substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality
of his/her conduct or to conform his/her conduct to the requirements of the law. This is
known as the
a. American Law Institute test
b. Durham test
c. Model Penal Code test
d. Lord Bracton test
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