What are some of the major issues that prisons face today? What new issues might the future bring?
What will be an ideal response?
• The major problems and issues facing prisons today include (1) the threat from infectious diseases such as AIDS, (2) the need to deal with a growing geriatric offender population (the result of longer sentences and the aging of the American population), (3) a sizable number of mentally ill and mentally deficient inmates, and (4) a concern over inmates with terrorist leanings and those incarcerated for terrorism-related crimes.
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The ?anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and initiation of action to remove or reduce it? is a definition of crime
What will be an ideal response?
A one shot case study design is/are ____________________
a. an effect of two independent variables operating simultaneously and in combination on a dependent variable. It is a larger effect than occurs from the sum of each independent variable working separately b. experimental designs that lack random assignment or use shortcuts and are much weaker than the classical experimental design. They can be substituted in situations in which an experimenter cannot use all the features of a classical experimental design, but have weaker internal validity c. an experimental design with only an experimental group and a posttest, no pretest. d. a pre-experimental design that has one group, a pretest, treatment, and a posttest. It lacks a control group and random assignment e. an experimental design in which the dependent variable is measured periodically across many time points, and the treatment occurs in the midst of such measures, often only once
Most jurisdiction have made recent legislative changes making civil protections orders difficult for victims to obtain
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Suicide is a criminal homicide in California
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