In Philadelphia, in 1970, 75 of the population is White. What percentage of the complaints against police were from African-Americans?
A. 30
B. 50
C. 70
D. 90
How many United States police officers are killed in the line of duty each year?
A. Between 10 and 50
B. Between 70 and 100
C. Between 140 and 200
D. Between 300 and 500
Which of the following is NOT a temptation of forensic psychology and a risk in its use?
A. Promising too much
B. Doing a cursory job
C. Maintaining a dual relationship and competing roles
D. Presenting ambiguous and irrelevant information
Which of the following was NOT one of the themes found by those who reviewed Margaret Hagen's book, Whores of the Court?
A. Forensic clinical psychologists are not scientifically competent.
B. Forensic clinical psychologists are economically motivated.
C. Forensic clinical psychologists are driven by missionary liberal motives.
D. Forensic psychologists are uninformed about legal procedure.
Attorneys shopping around until they find an expect who will say what they want contributes to expert witnesses
A. doing a cursory job.
B. promising too much.
C. substituting advocacy for objectivity.
D. presenting their information in a confusing manner.
Which of the following best represents the danger of the advocate role in expert testimony?
A. It confuses the jury.
B. It must present more than one explanation for the individual's behavior.
C. It sacrifices intuition for empiricism.
D. It compromises the objectivity of the expert.
When composing an amicus brief, Saks (1993) suggested that psychologists should
A. assert opinions on the ultimate issue in the case.
B. represent a consensual view of social scientists.
C. focus on constitutional law.
D. let others apply their research findings.
Which of the following is used to describe a brief which is submitted by the APA when it possesses knowledge the Court otherwise might not have?
A. A guild-interest brief
B. A science-translation brief
C. An advocacy brief
D. A moral-position brief
In which case, did the Supreme Court agree with the opinion of APA's amicus brief?
A. McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)
B. Schall v. Martin (1984)
C. Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
D. Atkins v. Virginia (2002)
Hafemeister and Melton (1987) concluded that when secondary social-science sources were cited in cases, they were most often originally published in
A. law reviews or government reports.
B. textbooks.
C. social psychology journals.
D. Psychology Today.
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