What is a Security Threat Group (STG)?
What will be an ideal response?
An inmate group, gang, or organization whose members act together to pose a threat to the safety of correctional staff or the public, who prey upon other inmates, or who threaten the secure and orderly operation of a correctional institution.
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The apparent safety doctrine holds that a defendant is the legal cause of a resulting harm if the victim reaches a place of "apparent safety," at which point an intervening cause of harm comes into play
a. True b. False
What was the essential ruling in Jackson v. Indiana?
?a) Psychoactive medication could not be given to incompetent defendants. ?b) Psychoactive medication could not be given to defendants found insane. ?c) Incompetent defendants could not be hospitalized indefinitely if no progress was made ? ?to restore them. ?d) Persons found insane could not be hospitalized indefinitely. ?e) The deinstitutionalization of all psychiatric patients.
Which of the following statements is true about problem-oriented policing?
A. It is effective when power is decentralized within a police department. B. It excludes focused deterrence strategies that emphasize police attention on a small number of offenders in a community. C. It focuses on identifying the various methods of fighting crime rather than the end product of policing. D. It treats every incident as an isolated incident.
When reading a table for bivariate analysis that displays percentages of some attributes, what is the rule of thumb for reading the table?
a. if it adds up to 100% the statistics are accurate b. if the table is percentaged down, read across and if the table is percentaged across, read down c. if the table is percentaged down, read down and if the table is percentaged across, read across d. none of the above