Discuss the challenges faced by women working in criminal justice.

What will be an ideal response?


There are many challenges that women working in the criminal justice face, such as on-the-job sexual harassment, work–family balance, maternity, and motherhood. In addition, there are also challenges in how women manage their roles, duties, and responsibilities in a previously male dominated work environment.

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While the elements of the Texas criminal mischief statute and the Texas graffiti statute overlap somewhat, the graffiti statute is directed largely toward property damage caused by the use of:

A) pencils and pens. B) latex paint. C) chalk. D) spray paint.

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The National Research Council and Institute of Medicine's Panel on Juvenile Crime expressed alarm over an increasingly punitive juvenile justice system and recommended that the federal government should assist states:

a. to develop community-based alternatives b. to develop residential intervention programs designed to reduce delinquency c. in focusing their efforts on the protection of the community d. by limiting monetary incentives for peer-run alternative courts

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Crime prevention through environmental design is what kind of approach to deterring criminal behavior?

a. Alternative dispute resolution b. Multidisciplinary c. Technological d. Territorial

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Executive Order 13228, signed on October 8, 2001, established the ________.

A. U.S. Department of Energy B. Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention C. Federal Emergency Management Administration D. Office of Homeland Security

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