Discuss the difference in a stop and frisk and an arrest. What are the requirements for an officer to conduct a “stop and frisk”?
Please thoroughly discuss each of the following:
1. A police officer must have probable cause to arrest an individual. What is probable cause? How much probable cause is needed to secure an arrest or search warrant?
2. What is the exclusionary rule? Discuss the exceptions to the exclusionary rule.
3. Discuss the difference in a stop and frisk and an arrest. What are the requirements for an officer to conduct a “stop and frisk”?
Q9
Scott Mayo worked as a bartender at The Local Watering Hole. One night at work, Scott got into an argument with Basil Scowen. Mayo owed Scowen $1500.00. The argument heated up and, after Scowen picked up a beer bottle threateningly and appeared to be intoxicated, Mayo grabbed a pistol kept behind the bar and fired at Scowen, killing him. Mayo says Scowen told him, “I am going to kill you,” and what he believed was imminent danger from Scowen. Mayo was placed under arrest. He was not read his rights. He was transported to the local county jail. The prosecution witnesses are the police officer, who came to the scene and took statements from Mayo, and a frequent bar customer, Dawn Dietz, who witnessed some of what happened. The defense witnesses are the defendant, Mayo, and Joe, “the fireman”, who was outside and saw some of the action through the window while sitting on the patio.
1) Did the police have probable cause to arrest Mayo?
2) Did law enforcement violate Mayo’s constitutional rights? If yes, explain how. If not, explain why.
3) Were the police required to read Mayo his Miranda rights? Discuss why.
Q10
While Jurgen Habermas derides mass culture for corrupting our ability to reason, what role, if any, might education play in promoting “The Rationalizing of the Life World”? Second, as a form of technology, do you consider the Internet a potential way to improve our communication in society, or does it harm it? Defend your response with specific reference to the reading. Also include a link to a recent news piece related to the impact of education or technology on society. Briefly discuss the connection of the news piece to the discussion topic
Q11
observations from your research on biopsychology, cognitive neuropsychology and clinical neuropsychology as subspecialties and career options
1) List at least four careers for each of these areas of psychology. 2) After researching these areas, did you find any careers that interested you? Why or why not? 3) What did you find to be the most interesting aspect about of these subspecialties in psychology?
Q12
Which one of the theories do you think is most useful in understanding and explaining personality development in contemporary society? (IE Development theory).
