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While on patrol, Jerry receives a call regarding a domestic disturbance—a fight between a husband and wife. By the time Jerry arrives at the scene of the disturbance, things have calmed considerably, and he decides to merely warn the parties rather than take any further action. Which type of discretionary factor is best represented in this circumstance?

In the 1990s, police departments began to embrace community policing.​

An officer who approaches a group of teenagers drinking beer, checks everyone’s IDs, and arrests everyone who is underage would typify which style of policing?

Danny is surprised to learn that DNA evidence collected at local crime scenes in his jurisdiction are sent to a federal database titled “Combined DNA Index System.” Which federal agency maintains this CODIS database?​

Twins who develop from separate fertilized eggs are called ________ twins.

Applying mild electrical stimulation to parts of an animal’s cortex which made parts of the animal’s body move, Gustav Fritsch and Edward Hitzig discovered what is now called the

The release of hormones by the adrenal glands is most likely to trigger

Surgical destruction of brain tissue is called a(n)

A state in which the fluid outside an axon has a mostly positive charge and the fluid inside the axon has a mostly negative charge is called

Your conscious awareness of your own name and self-identity (e.g., what distinguishes us as humans from less complex animals) depends primarily on the normal functioning of your