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What is the hands-off doctrine?
A policy of nonintervention with regard to prison management that U.S courts tended to follow until the later 1960's. (prisoners have rights)
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What is a Correction Officer?
a person charged with the responsibility of the supervision, safety and security of prisoners in a prison, jail, or similar form of secure custody
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What is Prisonization?
Prisonization is the fact or process of becoming prisonized.
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where was the model of juvenill system started?
Breed Vs. Jones; Roman "parens patriae"; "In re Gault" - 1967
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What is a Status Offense?
- An act or conduct that is declared by statute to be an offense, but only when committed by or engaged in by a juvenile, and that can be adjudicated only by a juveniled court.
- Purchasing cigarettes, buying alcohol are examples.
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What is preliminary hearing?
A proceeding before a judicial officer in which three matters must be decided: whether a crime was committed, whether the crime occurred within the territorial jurisdiction of the court, and whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that the defendant committed the crime.
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What are Schedule 2 drugs or Controlled Substances?
Narcotics, Stimulants, General depressants, Marijuana, Hallucinogens, Inhalants, and Anabolic steroids.
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What is the Open Fields Doctrine?
The open fields doctrine is a U.S. legal doctrine created judicially for purposes of evaluating claims of an unreasonable search by the government in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states:
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What is the Harrison Narcotics Act?
The first major piece of federal anti drug legislation passed in 1914. A USA federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates (narcotic drugs)
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Which act made Marijuana prohibited?
The U.S Controlled Substance Act; U.S V. Oakland
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Abandoned property, is it protected by the 4th amendment?
If its on your property then it's protected by the 4th amendment.
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What is the Marijuana tax act?
The act was drafted by Harry Anslinger and introduced by Rep. Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, on April 14, 1937.The Act levied a tax equaling roughly one dollar on anyone who dealt commercially in cannabis, hemp, or marijuana.
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What is a Federal Offense?
A federal offense can be a felony or a misdemeanor depending on the severity of the crime and the severity of punishment that the national government imposes. When a national government establishes a law and imposes a penalty for a violation of such law anywhere in the country.
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What is Federal prison incarceration?
a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime.
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What is cyberterrorism?
A form of terrorism that makes use of high technology, especially computers and the Internet, in the planning and carrying out of terrorist attacks.
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What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
- is an Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001 after the attack on 9/11.
- -Act is to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and other purposes
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What is domestic terrorism?
The unlawful use of force or violence by an individual or a group that is based and operates entirely within the United States and it's territories, act without foreign direction, and directs its activities against elements of the U.S government or population.
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Is terrorism a transnational crime?
Yes, its a transnational crime.
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What is Narcoterrorism?
A political alliance between terrorist organizations and drug-supplying cartels. The cartels provide financing for the terrorists, who in turn provide quasi-military protection to the drug dealers.
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