Discuss jail populations and why they continue to increase
What will be an ideal response?
Today, there are nearly 750,000 inmates held in jails. Jail populations continue to rise because as prisons become more overcrowded, local jails are used to house inmates. Also, as crimes are more controlled or the local focus is on crime reduction, more arrests are made and more offenders are jailed, creating an ongoing increase.
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a. Government corruption b. Pornography c. Blue-collar crime d. Employee theft
Asportation pertains to both kidnapping and false imprisonment
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Traditional juvenile courts were:
A) democratic. B) bureaucratic. C) adversarial. D) one sided.
________ was a U.S. radical left organization active from 1969 to 1975. Its members referred to themselves as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men." Their goal was the revolutionary overthrow of the U.S. government
A) Army of God B) Ku Klux Klan C) Weathermen D) Black Liberation Army