What are some characteristics of security threat group (STG) found within the nation’s prisons?
What will be an ideal response?
Prison and street affiliation is based on race, ethnicity, geography, ideology, or any combination of these or other similar factors. Members seek protection from other gang members inside and outside the prison, as well as insulation from law enforcement detection (use of safe houses when wanted). Members will mutually take care of an incarcerated member’s family, at least minimally, while the member is locked up, since this is an expected overhead cost in the organization. The group’s mission integrates an economic objective and uses some form of illicit industry, such as drug trafficking, to fulfill the economic necessities to carry forward other stated objectives. The use of violence or the threat of violence is a common tool in meeting these economic objectives. All security threat groups are a major issue for prisons around the United States.
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In which of the following did the new women's reformatories of the late nineteenth century differ from those for men?
a. Women's reformatories were built in a cottage plan with the women living in small individual units(cottages). b. Women's reformatories relied on solitary confinement whereas the men's prisons of the same time period had moved away from solitary confinement. c. Women's reformatories held felons only, whereas the men's prisons of the time housed misdemeanants as well as felons. d.Women's reformatories provided vocational training that would result in higher paying jobs than did the men's prisons.
Which of the following is an example of indeterminate sentencing?
a. offenders know how much time they will serve behind bars at the time of sentencing b. offenders are given a range of sentencing possibilities and serve their time in prison within that timeframe c. offenders are retained in prison until they are reformed d. offenders are not initially sent to prison but will be if they commit another offense
Which field is NOT directly part of the specialty fields of forensic science?
a. criminalistics b. forensic pathology c. biology d. forensic entomology
The 1909 White House Conference on Youth established the:
a. U.S. Social Services Bureau in 1909 b. U.S. Juvenile Justice Center in 1912 c. U.S. Children's Bureau in 1912 d. U.S. Children's Bureau in 1909