What is the purpose of self-report studies?

What will be an ideal response?


Self-report studies
• provide fuller and more accurate picture of the amount of crime
• contradict or expand on the UCR
• detail offenders' demographic characteristics such as:
• age
• gender
• race
• social class
• the amount of gang delinquency
• the extent of drug and alcohol abuse
• aid evaluation: greater reliance on self-report studies due to limitations of official statistics on juvenile delinquency

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What role do jails play in American corrections? What are some of the issues that jail admin-istrators currently face?

What will be an ideal response?

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Which stage of the criminal justice process is an adversarial process that pits the prosecution against the defense?

a. arrest b. investigation c. trial d. corrections

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In 2006 the USA PATRIOT Act was repealed

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Today, there is only one judge per district

a. True b. False

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