The process by which a person threatening suicide is committed against their will for a psychiatric evaluation is known as what?

a. Forced commitment
b. Police-initiated commitment
c. Statutory evaluation
d. Involuntary commitment


Answer: d

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a. True b. False

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The impetus for women's prisons was that women would be treated more ____ and had a better chance of being _____ in separate facilities

a. fairly; reformed b. leniently; punished c. harshly; repentant d. fairly; monitored

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Identify and describe the four typologies of violent offenders. How would efforts to reduce violence vary for each of these typologies?

What will be an ideal response?

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The term "temporary theft" is not used to imply that the crime is not serious but rather to distinguish joyriding from something more ominous.

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

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