A ___ is a facility that holds convicted offenders are unconvicted persons for relatively short periods of up to one year.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Answer: jail

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Police managers should not ignore social groups even if they're small, newly emerging, and focused on a specific cause

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The idea of a pure bureaucracy was developed by_____________, the "father of sociology."

a. Abraham Maslow b. Jane Mouton c. Max Weber d. Douglas McGregor

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A model that suggests the influences that prisoners bring into prison affect their process of imprisonment is the:

a. deprivation model. b. importation model. c. situational model. d. administrative control model.

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If a political criminal plots to overthrow an existing government and replace it with one that holds views he or she finds more acceptable, we would say that this criminal has ____ as a goal

a. revolution b. conviction c. pseudo-conviction d. profit

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