Exam 2: An Overview of the Justice System

In 2002 the United States withdrew from the Treaty of Rome because of administration fears that American military personnel could be tried for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

______ is a common behavior of survivors of torture.

The International Criminal Court is a part of the United Nations.

Among the rights protected by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is

Oddly,evidence indicates that victims of trafficking enjoy a better lifestyle than do their families and friends back home.

The earliest known discussion of the collection of crime ___ at the international level is considered to have been at the General Statistical Congress held in Brussels in 1853.

The ___ Crime Victimization Survey is the most far-reaching survey of crime in the world.

The governor of a border state wants to know if the United Nations' Protocol to Prevent,Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,especially Women and Children,applies to her state,where she approved an agreement with a foreign corporation by which the corporation would hire foreign individuals and transport them to her state for work on the hog farms.What would be your answer to the governor?

The International Criminal Court has no authority to deal with individual responsibility in acts of genocide.

The United States now participates in the International Crime Victim Survey.

There are six principal organizations within the United Nations:the Security Council,the General Assembly,the Economic and Social Council,the Trusteeship Council,the International Court of Justice,and ____.

The ______ operates an extensive website that provides detailed information about abducted children.

Trafficking of persons is a lucrative business for organized crime.

In 1976,___ began publishing a journal entitled Victimology.

1.Victimology did not gain an international perspective until the 1970s.

A nation is guilty of trafficking within its own borders when it enslaves its citizens as a source of cheap labor.

The United States includes bilateral agreements in treaties with other nations ensuring that American military personnel cannot be tried for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

Evidence indicates that we are making slow progress in the fight against trafficking.

Generally trafficking involves a flow of victims from large,well-developed countries to those that are less populated and more agrarian.

All victims of crimes should be treated as individuals with their own special needs.