What effect have efforts to decrease the number of people under state correctional supervision had?

A. Crime rates have risen dramatically.
B. Crime rates have risen slightly.
C. Crime rates have not risen.
D. Crime rates have actually decreased.


C. Crime rates have not risen.

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What will be an ideal response?

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A principle of crime prevention that maintains that, if crime is stopped in one area, law violators may simply move to other areas with less-protected targets

A) Displacement B) Diffusion C) Deflection D) Both A and C

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In their seminal work, May and Wood, found that there is a need to further examine community-based sanctions as being viewed as “soft” on crime. As illustrated by __________ of participants refusing to serve any time in the community and the mixed results of those who consider it, the overall intrusion in the lives of offenders combined with relatively generous good time and release policies may be worth the gamble to offenders to avoid being supervised in the community. Likewise, those with the greatest bonds to their communities and those with the most to lose if incarcerated appear to be willing to make the sacrifice of serving their sanction in the community and avoiding the stigmatization of serving time behind bars.

a. one fourth b. one third c. one half d. two thirds

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____________ may be explained as experiencing a more transcendent sense of awareness

1. Mindfulness 2. Wholesight 3. Caring 4. Connectedness

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