Law Enforcement

1. What is the basic police mission?

2. How did the police as a law enforcement organization arise and develop?

3. Is there any police force, organized by central government?

4. What is Scotland Yard and what does it do?

5. Why is the development of the British police system especially significant?

6. When can the police use their powers to stop and search?

7. What document is necessary to carry out an arrest?

8. What rights does an arrested person have?

9. How long can a person be kept in custody before being charged?

10. What are the provisions of the Habeas Corpus Act?

Arrest. Witnesses and Their Testimony

1. Who is called a suspect?

2. When can a person be held in custody by the police?

3. What are allegations?

4. What are the usual types of witness?

Trial and Reaching a Verdict

1. What are the steps of a trial?

2. Who is a jury?

3. How are the jurors selected?

4. Who is the first to make an opening statement?

5. When do the lawyers make objections?

6. What is the purpose of the judge’s instructions?

7. What kind of verdict may the jury return?

8. Who delivers a verdict?

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The History of Law and Society

1. Have laws changed since primeval times?

2. What spheres of human life were covered by Hammurabi’s code?

4. What does the ancient Greek concept of law comprise?

5. Why were the first law mainly attributed to divine powers?

6. What was Solomon’s contribution to ancient law?

7. What were the two basic principles of the English system of government at the beginning of the 13^th century? How do you understand these principles?

9. What political situation necessitated the granting of the Magna Carta?

10. What events preceded the Bill of Rights?

11. What was remarkable about Napoleon’s new code?

12. What outstanding philosophers of law do you know?

13. What are Sir Thomas More’s major ideas?

14. What are John Locke’s major ideas?

15. What are Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu’s major ideas?

16. What are Voltaire’s major ideas?

17. What are Jeremy Bentham’s major ideas?

18. What are the earliest legal texts of Kievan Rus?

19. How was the legal procedure performed in Moscovy?

20. What were Peter’s reforms in the country’s administration?

22. What are the major features of the Russian legal development in the 9^th century?

Criminology

1. What is criminology?

2. What steps can be observed in the development of criminology?

3. What were the earliest criminological theories?

4. What is the main idea of Biological Theory?

5. What is Cesare Lombroso famous for?

6. What are the latest views on the causes of crime?