Provide an overview of the prisoner and jail inmate profiles for female inmates through statistics proved from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the American Civil Liberties Union
What will be an ideal response?
• White women are 1/3 as likely as back women to be incarcerated and slightly more than half as likely as Hispanic women to be incarcerated.
• Approximately 60% of women in state prisons have young children; about 2/3 of the women lived with their children before entering prison.
• Nearly 60% of the women reported they had ever been physically or sexually abused.
• About 6 in 10 women in state prison were using drugs in the months preceding their offense.
• In most cases, when a woman is imprisoned her child is displaced; when the father in incarcerated, the child is more likely to live with the mother and not be displaced.
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From the choices below, select the one correct physical evidence collection procedure
a. Bloodstained garments should be packaged separately in paper bags. b. Items recovered from scene of a murder should be sent along with the body to the Medical Examiner. c. All items collected from the same grid area should be packaged together. d. The victim's clothing should be obtained at the crime scene and vacuumed to obtain trace evidence.
______ _______ a phrase used to indicate appellate court interpretation of the law
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Explain the various types of guilty pleas
What will be an ideal response?
The continued use of some types of forensic evidence has been called into question
Indicate whether the statement is true or false