List Sykes’s five central pains of imprisonment from his study in The Society of Captives and discuss each of them.
What will be an ideal response?
Sykes’s five central pains of imprisonment:
• deprivation of liberty
• deprivation of goods and services
• deprivation of heterosexual relationships
• deprivation of autonomy
• deprivation of security
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The Bureau of Prisons:
a. was created by President Bush. b. oversees the nation's prisons. c. supports the conservative approach to punishment. d. has offices only in Washington. e. all of the above.
"Hot spots" in Minneapolis:
a. are restaurants and night clubs owned by organized crime. b. are addresses and intersections that account for a disproportionately large percentage of all crimes in the city. c. are the areas in the city that have the most crime during the summer months. d. cannot be identified because crime is evenly spread across all addresses and intersections.
An excuse defense is one in which
A. an actor is not able to offer a valid excuse for his or her behavior but is still not morally or legally culpable. B. the focus is on an act and not on the actor. C. an actor's conduct is criminal but the actor is not held morally or legally culpable. D. an act is such that the actor's role in the conduct is rendered lawful.
Another word for stare decisis is:
A. substantive law. B. procedural law. C. precedent. D. constitution.