Who usually has the responsibility for operating the county jail?

a. city manager
b. sheriff
c. deputy
d. judge


b. sheriff

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1.Distinction reinforcement is defined as “the balance of unanticipated or actual rewards and punishments that follow or are consequences of behavior.” 2.Control theories are in many ways the opposite of DAT and SLT because they don’t ask why people commit crimes. 3.Tannenbaum viewed the labeling of a person as a “criminal” as a self-fulfilling prophesy. 4.For social-control theorists, crime and other forms of deviance have no objective reality and are defined into existence rather than discovered. 5.Sykes and Matza’s neutralization theory (NT) is a learning theory that attacks DAT’s failure to explain why some people drift in and out of crime rather than being consistently criminal.

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The cause of the misbehavior of the guards in the Stanford Prison Experiment was ______.

a. job stress b. poor supervision c. difficult inmates d. power

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Specialty courts are

A. lower courts. B. appellate courts. C. courts of general jurisdiction. D. federal courts.

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Sociology is a multiple paradigm science

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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