What is a budget cycle? What is its importance in budgeting?
What will be an ideal response?
: The budget cycle consists of four sequential steps, repeated every year at about the same point in time:
(1) budget formulation, (2) budget approval, (3) budget execution, and (4) budget audit. The budget cycle governs the overall budget of a police department. In government (and, therefore, all public criminal justice agencies) the budget cycle is typically set on a fiscal-year basis.
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a. controlled and diverse b. technical and more humane c. sanctioned and more encouraged d. less sanctioned and less encouraged
Describe concerns with the placement of inmates with a gang affiliation
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following statements concerning age cohorts and the rate of crime is true?
A. Men aged 16-24 are the least crime-prone group. B. The rise in crime in the 1970s has been blamed on the decreased numbers of 16- 24-year-olds. C. The increase in crime in the 2000s was due to higher than usual numbers of 14- 24 year-olds. D. The maturing of the post-World War II baby boomers in the 1980s is likely the cause for the decrease in the crime rate. E. During the 1990s, the larger than usual 16- to 24-year age cohort likely contributed to the increase in crime.
Completion rates of convicted nonviolent federal offenders on electronic monitoring indicate that roughly_____ of offenders are successful
a. 75% b. 90% c. 50% d. 30%