Which theory of incapacitation involves predicting that an individual offender, or offenders with certain characteristics, will commit additional crimes if not locked up?
A. selective incapacitation
B. specific incapacitation
C. general incapacitation
D. collective incapacitation
Answer: A
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a. True b. False
Critics of stigma-reducing programs claim that they just exchange one kind of stigma for another. If true, is such an exchange necessarily a bad thing? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
Some states lump larceny into the following category:
a. Larceny by theft b. Larceny by trickery c. Larceny by fraud d. All of the above
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Federal law currently does not prohibit theft of computer programs or computer fraud. 2. The Internal Revenue Code criminalizes a number of offenses, but does not make it a crime to overstate the amount of deductions on one’s tax return. 3. Federal law makes it a crime to use the U.S. mail in furtherance of any fraudulent scheme. 4. A state crime can be used as a predicate act of the racketeering activity charged under RICO, but only after the offense has resulted in a conviction in a state court.