President Bush's Violent Crime Control Act of 1994 resulted in the hiring of some 100,000 police officers in the latter part of the 1990s
a. True b. False
b
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Those psychopaths who commit antisocial or violent acts because of severe emotional problems or inner conflicts are referred to as
A) primary psychopaths. B) mentally disordered psychopaths. C) secondary psychopaths. D) psychotic psychopaths.
Publishing the names of derelict employees and concise information on which charges against them were based can be considered one aspect of the penalty that obviously enhances its deterrent value
a. True b. False
Which of the following is an example of an experimental design?
a. offenders are randomly assigned to the treatment and control groups b. offenders are selected for a treatment group and no control group is used c. offenders are in treatment or control groups but random assignment is not used d. offenders are given a pre-test prior to receiving an intervention and then given a post-test after the intervention to make sure any differences are due to the intervention
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. During Prohibition, Congress passed two more bills, the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Federal Firearms Act of 1938, which were both intended to decrease gang-related violence and also to control the illegal distribution of alcohol. 2. In the wake of urban rioting and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, Congress once again turned its attention to gun control by passing the Gun Control Act of 1968. 3. A substance that has been linked to violent behavior is phencyclidine, otherwise known as PCP, angel dust, ozone, whack, or rocket fuel. 4. The first significant federal legislation concerning drugs occurred in 1914 when Congress passed the Ford Act, which served to make the nonmedical use of morphine and cocaine illegal. 5. In October 1919, the National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, gave federal agencies the power to enforce the Sixteenth Amendment.