______ make up the majority of all inmates in local jails.

a. Blacks
b. Whites
c. Hispanics/Latinos
d. Asians


b. Whites

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Lucky Luciano was the first major organized crime figure to serve a prison sentence for promoting prostitution

a. True b. False

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A measure of association that has a correction factor to make it comparable with 1.00 is the:

a. Pearson C. b. Lambda. c. Cramer's V. d. phi coefficient.

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In 2013, California Governor Jerry Brown announced that he would stop new admissionsto the state's Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) facilities and provide funds to the counties in an effort to have the counties deal with juveniles at the point

they are most likely to return. This is an example of a: a. Resolution strategy. b. Reinvestment strategy. c. Realignment strategy. d. Reinvention strategy.

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Itsey, a kindergarten student, watches her father tower over her mother, glaring at her; she then hears her father yelling at her mother. At school, the teacher tells the students to sit on the carpet for story time. Itsey does not want to sit down just yet; she is busy at one of the centers in the classroom. Her teacher again asks everyone to sit down and everyone does, except for Itsey. The

teacher then directly asks Itsey to sit down. Itsey looks at her teacher and says she doesn't want to sit down and she better stop asking her to sit down; the next time she does, Itsey will bring a knife to school and cut her. What theory aligns to the exchange between Itsey and her teacher? a. Psychodynamic theory b. Cognitive learning theory c. Personality theory d. Social learning theory

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