What are the benefits of home confinement?
What will be an ideal response?
The benefits of home confinement include:
•Reducing the stigma of incarceration while still punishing offenders
•Maintaining family ties and occupational roles that improve chances for rehabilitation
•Saving money from reduced jail and prison maintenance and construction costs and from payments by offenders
•Protecting the public by keeping offenders "off the street"
•Satisfying the demand for punishment
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The Fourth Amendment requires thatnowarrants for a search or an arrest be issued without _____________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
King Henry II required that gaols be built for the purpose of:
A. extorting fine money from citizens B. removing the poor from the streets C. holding the accused for trial D. all of these
Which of the following is the term for guilty act?
A. mens rea B. actus reus C. corpus delicti D. ex post facto
State legislators always support increases in funding for educational programs in the prison system because of success of these programs in reducing recidivism
Indicate whether the statement is true or false