The most important factor when considering desistance is:

A. the inmate's ability to find employment.
B. frequent meetings with a parole officer.
C. counseling and substance abuse programming.
D. the individual inmate's desire to remain free.


Answer: D

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The General Social Survey (GSS) is a longitudinal study compiled from official statistics.

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

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______ is a set of professional rules that regulate the behavior of the individual.

a. Standards b. Guidelines c. Regulations d. Code of ethics

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Modeling theory posits that people learn how to act by watching others. Modeling theory has also been applied to violent behavior seen on television

Today's television shows and video games contain a lot of violence. Apply modeling theory to the violence depicted in the cartoons of several decades ago. Would people display violent and aggressive tendencies after watching the coyote fall off the cliff in Roadrunner cartoons? What about after watching Elmer Fudd shoot Daffy Duck? Those cartoon were very violent. Did they influence behavior? What will be an ideal response?

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The U.S. Bureau of Prisons was created in the year ______.

a. 1930 b. 1945 c. 1963 d. 1979

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