Prison populations are utilitarian concerns when used to determine an appropriate punishment
a. True
b. False
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True
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In 1984, Congress passed an act that
A) created the U.S. Probation Office. B) abolished mandatory federal sentences. C) implemented career offender sanctions. D) abolished federal parole.
The most severe of the statutory dispositions available to the juvenile court involves commitment of the child to an institution
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Due to the Law Enforcement Officer's Safety Act, federal laws affecting possession of firearms will no longer apply to off-duty police officers
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Match the key words or phrases with the associated phrase
1. sociological perspective a. society ranking different groups of people 2. structural criminology b. result of personal biography with historical and social conditions 3. vertical social structure c. behavior that violates social norms and receives negative social reactions 4. private troubles d. understanding crime with specific attention to the issues of poverty, race, and ethnicity, as well as the structure of communities and social relationships 5. criminology e. unwritten and informal social norms 6. customs f. social and physical characteristics of communities and the networks of social relationships 7. entrapment g. focuses on the idea that people are social beings more than mere individuals 8. deviance h. situations where a crime is committed because law enforcement agents induced the offender to do so 9. experiments i. the study of crime and criminal justice 10. horizontal social structure j. less common way to obtain data in criminology and sociology than in psychology