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What is your Last Name?
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Your answer
What is your First Name?
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Your answer
What is the main reason you are taking this course?
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Your answer
If you had to pick one career path right now from the list below - which would you choose?
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I am really not sure yet
Lawyer or Judge
Social Worker
Paralegal, Legal Translator, or Legal Software Services
City Police, including Detective
Social Scientist, Professor, Teacher, or other Educator
FBI
Department of Homeland Security, including Immigration & Customs Enforcement
Corrections Officer
Pyschology - Forensics
Science - Forensics
Private Security
Human Resources
Politician, Elected Official
Sales
Service Industry
Technology Industry
Laborer, Construction, or Related
Financial Services Industry
Other:
Are you enrolled in the Justice Academy Dual Enrollment Program with John Jay College?
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What is the Justice Academy?
Yes
No
I do not know
What is the highest degree you intend to earn?
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Associates
Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Arts
Master's Degree
PHD
Law Degree
Do you have a job right now? If so what industry? If no, when is the last time you had a job and what was it?
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Your answer
What is the average yearly income in the U.S.?
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More than $100,000
Less than $30,000
$30,000 - $40,000
$40,000- $50,000
$50,000 - $60,000
$60,000 - $99,999
How much money do you think you will earn per year before taxes in 2028?
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More than $100,000
$70,000 - $99,999
$15,000 - $35,000
$35,000-$45,000
$45,000 - $60,000
$60,000 - $70,000
How would you define upper class (rich), middle or working class, and lower class (poor)?
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Your answer
What is the Judiciary in your own words - do not copy and paste from the internet?
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Your answer
Provide an example that you think explains the concept: separation of powers.
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Your answer
Provide an example that you think explains the concept: checks and balances.
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Your answer
What is the U.S. Constitution in your own words?
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Your answer
What does federalism mean in your own words?
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Your answer
How many consitutions are there in the United States?
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1
2
51
1,000
Other:
Explain why you chose the number of constitutions in the question about; give a description of what you mean.
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Your answer
Which reform of the judiciary below you might propose if you were in Congress?
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Bail Reform
DNA Evidence Reform
Wrongful Conviction Reform
Election of Judges Reform
Stop and Frisk Policing Reform
Death Penalty Reform
Judical Review Reform
Judicial Qualifications Reform
Prisoner Re-Entry Reform
Legal Translation Reform
Legal Interpretation Reform
Trial Time Reform
Public Defender Reform
Other:
What is one problem with the courts or judges that you think is most urgent to solve?
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Your answer
Case Study: The Ride-Along Gone Wrong.
What should the Appellate Court Do?
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Uphold the Conviction; in this case the evidence was not obtained unlawfully.
Reverse the Conviction; in this case the evidence was obtained unlawfully.
I don't know.
Other:
Explain why you chose the answer you did in the previous question:
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Explain what law means in this case.
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Your answer
What would be the consequence if the legal system reversed the conviction due to unlawfully obtained evidence?
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Chaos, anarchy, more criminal behavior.
Lack of punishment, unfair, no revenge for bad behavior.
Immoral and bad behavior.
It would have no social consequence.
Other:
What does the Judiciary do in this case?
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find out the truth and punish bad behavior.
avoid chaos, anarchy, and reduces criminal behavior.
analyzes whether the trial court made the right decision whether evidence was obtained lawfully.
serves and protects the people through moral, unbiased decision making.
How is power exercised abusively in this case?
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Professor Barnes used his position and skills to trick the protestors.
Seattle Police Department used their authority to send Professor Barnes in to spy.
The Judges used their position to review evidence.
Other:
How does this exercise of power affect the defendant?
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They are on the defensive after being wrongly accused.
They were already being excluded from the majority political process as a dissident and were unfairly targetted.
They were not affected negatively because they had an equal right to defend themselves in court.
Other:
Who is responsible for the harm suffered by Professor Barnes?
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Professor Barnes
Seattle Police Department
Bezos
Both Bezos and the Seattle Police Department
Both Prof. Barnes and Bezos
No one
Other:
Which kind of injustice/discrimination do you care most about trying to solve or change?
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Racial/racism
Cultural/ethnic
Gender
Sexuality
Poverty/Economic/Class
Education/Segregation
Housing/Gentrification
Health Care
Environmental/Climate
Why did you choose this injustice?
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Your answer
What do you already know about this injustice?
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Your answer
If someone you knew experienced this injustice what would you tell them to do?
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Try to move on with their life
Tell a family member
Talk to a religious leader
Talk to a community leader
Get revenge, get even
Tell the Cops
Talk to a lawyer
File a legal claim
Lobby a legislator, talk to a political representative
Ignore it, it is what it is
Other:
Have you ever experienced this injustice?
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Yes
No
Other:
What did you do?
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Your answer
How would you decide whether "justice was served" in this case?
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If the defendant was found guilty and got the punishment they deserve.
If the defendant was found not guilty because the police violated their constitutional rights.
Other:
Which of the following 3 phrases most accurately describe your beliefs:
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Might makes right; I don't have might; I don't have the rights.
It's all a game and I don't have the tools, time, or the inside tips.
Only god forgives, everyone must pay their dues.
Other:
Your social well-being depends on:
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Costs and Benefits: whether others bring me pleasure or whether they harm me.
Reciprocity: if I do something good for you then others owe me a good deed.
Other:
Human beings are:
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naturally good
naturally bad
naturally good and bad
neither good nor bad as both are relative terms
crime is:
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when bad people intend to commit evil
when good people make mistakes
when people deviate from social norms in a particular social group
Other:
How would you describe your motivation at the beginning of this class?
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Highly Motivated! I Love it already!
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Not very Interested.
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