If You Are Incarcerated and Feel That You Are Being

question 31

Multiple Choice

If you are incarcerated and feel that you are being confined illegally,you would file a ________ so that the courts would review the constitutionality of your confinement.

• A)civil lawsuit
• B)writ of certiorari
• C)lawsuit under Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act
• D)habeas corpus petition

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Definitions:

P < .05

A statistical notation indicating that the probability of the observed results occurring by chance is less than 5%.

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the strength of a phenomenon, often used to determine the practical significance of research findings.

Cohen

Refers to statistical measures developed by Jacob Cohen to quantify the effect size or the strength of an observed phenomenon, such as Cohen's d.

Cohen's D

A gauge for quantifying the size of impact by showing the normalized discrepancy between two mean values.