How do residential facilities help juvenile offenders reform?

What will be an ideal response?


The answer should include the following points:


  • group home

  • halfway house

  • their purposes:

  • provide an alternative to institutionalization

  • used as short-term residences

  • used either as half-way in setting or half-way out setting

  • are treatment oriented

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In the wake of Furman, states revised their death-penalty laws and procedures to reduce _____ in the application of the penalty

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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The belief that lower rates of criminal offending by females can be explained by their second-class standing in society is explained by:

A) ?the Citadel hypothesis. B) ?conservative feminist theory. C) ?Marxist feminist theory. D) ?liberal feminist theory.

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When should the interview take place and where should questioning occur?

What will be an ideal response?

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Directed police patrolling occurs when:

a. The police direct citizens away from high-crime areas by blocking streets and thus reduce crime b. The police utilize high tech devices such as drones in order to identify crimes and direct patrol vehicles to the scene c. The police focus on hot-spot locations for crime, which appears to be able to reduce the amount of crime at these locations d. The police adopt community policing strategies in traditional high-crime areas, such as suburbs

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