The ____________________ is the idea that punishing one person for his or her criminal acts will discourage others from committing similar acts

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


general deterrent effect

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The primary purpose of scanning is to:

a. Determine responses to the problem b. Develop an approach to politicize and make the community aware of the problem c. Determine what types of criminal syndicates are causing the problem d. Determine if a problem exists and if further analysis is needed

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A spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations is called:

a. CrimeStat. b. GIS. c. MAPS program. d. StarkII.

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Circle processes are also known by which of the following names:

A. Community circles B. Sentencing circles C. Healing circles D. All of the above

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Ethnography and ethnomethodology are examples of qualitative data gathering procedures

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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