Laws That Require That Certain Dangerous Defendants Be Confined Before

question 26

Multiple Choice

Laws that require that certain dangerous defendants be confined before trial for their own protection and that of the community are called:

• A)Preventive detention statutes.
• B)Avertable detention statutes.
• C)Exclusionary statutes.
• D)Avertable statutes.

Appreciate the role of risk assessment and risk-benefit analyses in regulatory decision-making.

Compare human reliability to technological reliability in the context of safety and risk.

Acknowledge the ongoing threats to human health from pesticide-resistant insects, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the disruption caused by chemicals to human body systems.

Understand the causes and pathophysiology of hypertension.

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Definitions:

Z Distribution

A statistical distribution that describes the distribution of standardized values; it's used in inference regarding mean of normally distributed populations when the standard deviation is known.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a set of data points in relation to their mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding all the numbers in a set together and then dividing by the count of those numbers.

Standard Deviation

A calculation that determines the extent of variability or dispersion in a series of values.