Who was an early social control theorist who developed the containment theory?

A. Edwin Sutherland
B. Sigmund Freud
C. Walter Reckless
D. Robert Merton


C. Walter Reckless

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Reuter (1983) found gambling and loan-sharking industries in New York to be populated by ________________ with no organization and having a monopoly or market hegemony and no central control or coordination

a. brothels b. small operators c. dealers d. pimps

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In Bell v. Wolfish (1979), the United States Supreme Court recognized that:

A. changing low-level property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors would increase the chances of incarceration for probation and parole violators. B. it is important to give pretrial detainees greater legal protections than sentenced jail inmates. C. it would be impractical for corrections officials to treat pretrial detainees differently from convicted jail inmates. D. using corporal punishment similar to that used in the Auburn system would prevent inmates from reverting to a life of crime.

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In 2016, there was a ______% decrease in arrests of juveniles in the United States compared with 2007.

A. 73 B. 41 C. 24 D. 58

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Under Withrow and Dailey's ethics model, the role of the giver determines the level of corruptibility; the giver is taking a position as a

a. presenter, who offers a gift voluntarily without any expectation of a return from the receiver. b. contributor, who furnishes something toward a result and expects something in return. c. capitulator, who involuntarily responds to the demands of the receiver. d. All of the above are true.

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