A buyer and seller of stolen merchandise is often referred to as a ________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
fence
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The grant awarded to police departments if they hired a military veteran to serve as a community policing officer was known as:
a. Troops to COPS b. COPS FAST c. COPS AHEAD d. COPS MORE e. HSOP
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Part II offenses are all universally condemned mala in se offenses. 2. Property crimes are more likely to be cleared than violent crimes. 3. Whether crime has “gone up” or “gone down” depends on what years we choose to look at. 4. The strength of NIBRS (its comprehensive nature) also turns out to be its weakness in terms of participation. 5. The UCR and NCVS agree on the geographic areas and times of the year and month when crimes are more likely to occur.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The case of Morris v. Travisono (1970) resulted in a detailed set of procedures for classifying inmates that was overseen by the federal court system. 2. The use of automated classification systems is now standard practice in both prisons and community-based correctional agencies. 3. Due to litigation and overcrowding issues that have cropped up over the past decade, prisons have experienced increased pressure to improve their systems of classifying inmates according to custody, work, and programming needs. 4. The Elmira commission called for improved classification systems as a means of creating better treatment programs to reshape inmate behavior? 5. The Holt v. Sarver (1969) case resulted in a detailed set of procedures for classifying prisoners who were overseen by the federal court system.
What is false about the nature of the death penalty?
a. Today, capital punishment is limited only to the crime of murder in the first degree. b. The majority of executions in 2009 were done through lethal injection. c. Almost half the executions took place in Texas in 2009. d. Currently, there are more than 5,000 people on death row.