Explain the impact of overcrowding on inmates.

What will be an ideal response?


Overcrowding also can increase stress and anxiety levels leading to increases in negative mental health issues, such as depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation. Given the effects that overcrowding can have for female inmates, it is important that prisons be able to provide adequate resources to screen for potential self-harming behaviors and develop necessary therapeutic resources to address these issues

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which perspectives of the justice system have tended to dominate during the last few decades?

A. Nonintervention and equal justice B. Due process and rehabilitation C. Crime control and due process D. Due process and crime control

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Of the following scientific standards used to conduct systematic evaluation of gang programs, which one is most closely aligned with modeling program components of prior research?

a. conceptual framework b. program fidelity c. evaluation design d. outcome evidence

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According to Messer and Rosenfeld’s more modern approach to strain theory, which of the following influence white collar offending?

a. Education b. Ritualism c. Individualism d. Fundamentalism

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