How can social media and civic apps be used to address crime and disorder?

What will be an ideal response?


Social media can involve the transfer of text, photos, audio, video, and information in a general fluid manner among Internet users. Furthermore, social media platforms have created online communities where people and information can be easily shared, searched, promoted, disputed, and created. Social media can be used to inform the public. In April 2013, two bombs exploded during Boston’s annual Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. What ensued was an extraordinary manhunt and massive use of social media by law enforcement to keep the media and frightened citizens accurately informed about what was going on, via its official Twitter account.

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Describe the way female inmates socialize with each other in prison and compare this to the male power structure in men's institutions

What will be an ideal response?

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Most cases of incest take place between:

a. An adult female and a female child b. An adult female and a male child c. An adult male and a female child d. An adult male and a male child

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Robbery is:

a. assault with a deadly weapon. b. theft from an unoccupied building. c. any form of theft. d. theft from a person by force or threat of force.

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How did the turbulence in American society in the 1960s impact prisons?

A) The Supreme Court moved away from its focus on individual rights for those involved in the criminal justice system.
B) Efforts at rehabilitation increased in response to increasing rates of crime.
C) Inmates engaged in periodic prison riots and other forms of disorder in prisons.
D) It contributed to renewed focus on the medical model.

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