Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. During the last few decades, crime rates fell yet incarceration rates climbed.
2. Judges are allowed to punish repeat offenders more severely than first-time offenders.
3. Research on gender bias in sentencing suggests that judges do not take offenders’ family
circumstances into consideration in making pretrial release and sentencing decisions.
4. Teenage defendants tend to receive harsher sentences than young adults.
5. Research indicates that Black men convicted of murdering Black men are sentenced to death at a
higher rate than any other group.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. False
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following is used primarily by third -party policing that is not normally used by police?
A) criminal law B) local ordinances C) civil law D) curfew statutes
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a. True b. False