The Brown v. Plata U.S. Supreme Court case in 2011 issued a decision that required California to do which of the following?

a. to maintain their prison population
b. to provide individualized treatment to all inmates
c. to build more prisons to hold more inmates
d. to drastically reduce its prison population


d. to drastically reduce its prison population

Criminal Justice

You might also like to view...

Which of the following would be an example of a reason for the change to the community -policing era?

A) an increase in foot patrols that placed officers too close to citizens B) the anger at police presence in schools C) the isolation of police officers in patrol cars D) the need for greater presence in wealthy neighborhoods

Criminal Justice

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Empirically based research answers testable questions raised by new ideas. 2. External generalizations provide a set of inter-related propositions, assumptions, and definitions about how the world works, or how the people living in it are expected to behave. 3. Compiling and arranging the order of current knowledge about a topic describes the research process. 4. A good research topic drives your intellectual curiosity, is fun to learn about, and makes you excited to investigate. 5. Codebooks identify every variable or characteristic available in the data and how it is measured, and contain hundreds or thousands of variables found in the data set.

Criminal Justice

Acts that are inherently evil are referred to as ___________________; are outlawed because they violate basic moral values

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Criminal Justice

The first step in creating questions is typically:

a. writing questions b. determining whom you will interview c. figuring out interview type d. determining question format

Criminal Justice