Specific actions and policies that consistently show (with scientific reliability) that they “work,” based on defined outcomes, such as cost-effectiveness, reduced crime, increased satisfaction levels, and reduced injury rates are known as:
a. Evidence-Based Practices
b. Value-Added Attributes
c. Directed Policies
d. Validated Tasks
a. Evidence-Based Practices
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When a person or feature of an individual is a throwback to an early stage of the evolutionary development that individual is said to be ______.
a. naturalistic b. primitive c. atavistic d. autistic
Developing policies with the purpose of improving the physicaland social environments to decrease crime is an example of which of the following theories?
a. demonological b. classical/neoclassical c. ecological d. economic
______ are the number of new cases of a disorder in a defined population during a specified time period of observation.
A. Contracting rates B. Evolutionary rates C. Incidence rates D. Prevalence rates
Which of the following statements concerning the role of a prosecutor is false?
A) A prosecutor has considerable discretion in the criminal justice system. B) A prosecutor is influenced by other actors in the criminal justice system. C) A prosecutor has independent authority to decide how to handle each case. D) A prosecutor has limited influence in the early stages of the criminal justice process. E) A prosecutor may be heavily involved in local politics.