Briefly discuss the risk of victimization at schools relative to other places.
What will be an ideal response?
Schools are safer than most places, with less than 1% of juvenile homicides or suicides taking place at schools.
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Nearly all gang members have a defiant individualist personality. 2. Mass incarceration has resulted in street gangs becoming more assimilated into prison gangs. 3. According to Merton, aberrant conduct may be viewed as a symptom of dissociation between culturally defined aspirations and socially structured means. 4. According to Merton, proscribed behavior becomes increasingly rare when the emphasis on the culturally induced success-goal becomes divorced from a coordinate institutional emphasis. 5. The results of the analysis suggested that collective efficacy is an important construct that can be measured reliably at the neighborhood level.
Which of the following is not a limitation of restorative justice?
a. restorative justice uses principles of effective correctional intervention b. restorative justice is based on a limited theory of crime c. restorative justice does not target for change the known predictors of recidivism d. restorative justice’s dose of intervention is too weak to change serious offenders
The ____ was enacted as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, acknowledging domestic violence and sexual assault crimes, along with providing federal resources to encourage community-coordinated responses to combating violence against women.
a. Law Enforcement Assistance for Women Act b. Women Victims’ of Crime Act c. Human Rights Act d. Violence Against Women’s Act
The ______ conducts the initial classification of an offender sentenced to prison.
a. judge b. correctional officer c. unit manager d. community supervision staff