Academic achievement, parental support and efficacy, and religiosity decrease the risk of occurrence of a future delinquent act and are considered:

a. risk factors c. control factors
b. protective factors d. delinquency repression


B

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The ________ of prison industry involved private contractors providing raw materials and paying a set price to the prison for produced items

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Computer crime evidence is also called:

a. Probable cause evidence b. Reasonable suspicion evidence c. Digital evidence d. Removable media evidence

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What is the primary reason that an offender is placed in administrative segregation?

a. pressure for sexual favors from other inmates b. gang membership c. being in debt to other inmates d. having been previously employed in law enforcement

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In his book, The Lucifer Effect, psychologist Phillip Zimbardo suggests that the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison were the result of a bad social setting that contaminated the individual prison guard. What would Kant say about the difficulty of ethical conduct in the face of situation pressure to be unethical?

a. Unethical behavior is a natural result of peer pressure.
b. Ethical people endure, despite the situation, since they follow specific rules.
c. If the guards were better instructed by their leaders, this would not have happened.
d. It is better to conform that to risk retaliation at the hands of supervisors.

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