What social policies are based on psychological and psychiatric theories?

What will be an ideal response?


There are a number of crime control polices that may be based on psychological understandings of criminal behavior. Many focus on attempts to predict dangerousness. One of the most well-known is selective incapacitation. Selective incapacitation is based on the idea of career criminality and depends on accurately identifying potentially dangerous offenders in existing criminal populations. This may be incorporated into sentencing guidelines that target career offenders through the use of a criminal history dimension, increasing the amount of punishment an offender faces based on his/her history of law violations.

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A. Check kiting. B. Retail theft. C. Credit card fraud. D. Identity theft.

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What is the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)? How can the consortium benefit researchers?

What will be an ideal response?

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Juveniles have a constitutional right to jury trial

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following parts of the Fourth Amendment would be used by a police officer to gather evidence in a criminal matter?

A) Seizure B) Probable cause C) Search D) Justification

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