Monday, April 30, 2007

The Things You Learn

Finals week.

I've spent the past several hours making a study guide for my criminal justice test tomorrow morning. I have yet to actually study the study guide and to put that task off even longer, I shall share some of the most interesting things I learned while making the study guide.

-The most common punishment in Greece and Rome was exile or banishment.

-38 states and the federal government use the death penalty.

-In the 1984 case, Minnesota v. Murphy, the Supreme Court held that the probation officer-client relationship is not confidential.

-The first private prison was opened in Kentucky.

-About half of all female inmates become members of "make-believe families," essentially adopting different family roles and acting them out like a game of house.

-A Sticky Shooter is a less than lethal projectile which uses stun gun technology to temporarily incapacitate a person at standoff range. It uses a low-impact, wireless projectile fired from compressed gas or powder launchers and is accurate within 10 meters.

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