Discuss the importance of “outreach” services in anti-gang intervention and suppression programs. Be sure to discuss research findings on outreach services and desistance from criminal and gang-related behavior.
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. Students should first define outreach work as direct program services carried out by outreach workers. They are primarily responsible for meeting with program participants, initiating referrals, and generally serving as the “eyes and ears” of a program. Students should then review research on outreach work. For example, Pyrooz and colleagues (2014) found that prosocial social networks, including outreach workers, are significant in helping youth desist from gangs. In addition, evaluations of the Little Village Project found that combining outreach services with more traditional enforcement services was particularly effective in helping reduce delinquent behavior in older, criminally involved youth. Overall, research indicates that regardless of the other strategies used, outreach services can be integrated into effective gang programming in large part owing to its ability to reduce the impacts of “multiple marginality”--a factor that has been shown to undercut program success rates.
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Which of the following describe(s) routine activities theory?
a. Motivation to commit crime is constant. b. Number of offenders is constant. c. Any routine activity makes crime predictable. d. Both a and b.
On April 8, 2014, the FBI arrested nineteen-year-old Conley at the Denver Airport as she was preparing to board a flight to Adana, Turkey. She had planned to make her way into Syria, which borders Turkey, and marry a Tunisian man she met online who was affiliated with the terrorist group known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). A certified nurse's aide Conley apparently intended to provide medical assistance to ISIL fighters, who have killed a number of Americans in the Middle East. Conley eventually pleaded guilty to providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and, in January 2015, a federal judge sentenced her to four years in prison. The _____________ greatly strengthened the ability of federal law enforcement agents to investigate and incarcerate
terrorist suspects. A. Patriot Act B. Material Support Act C. Anti-Terrorism Act D. National Security Act
Compare and contrast indeterminate, determinate, and mandatory sentences
What will be an ideal response?
Searches at international borders:
a. must be based on reasonable suspicion. b. must be based on probable cause. c. may be conducted without probable cause or a warrant. d. must be conducted randomly.