The United States has:
A) a uniform criminal code.
B) a common law that supersedes the statutes of individual jurisdictions.
C) a federal criminal code under which most charges are brought.
D) variations among jurisdictions in defining crimes and punishments.
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Q5: Judicial activism:
A)binds courts to stand by prior
Q6: A malum prohibitum crime is:
A)punishable only by
Q7: The ex post facto principle prohibits:
A)decreasing punishments
Q8: Criminal law possesses the following characteristics:
A)conviction carries
Q9: Which of the following constitutional provisions limits
Q11: The original source of our criminal laws
Q12: Critics of deterrence theory maintain that:
A)human beings
Q13: Misdemeanors are:
A)"violations," not crimes.
B)minor crimes.
C)civil harms.
D)common law
Q14: The Model Penal Code was developed by:
A)the
Q15: The doctrine that requires criminal laws to
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