Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Patriarchy implies that women are suited for feminine occupations, and thus less worthy professions.
2. Historically, with the exception of matrons, women were prohibited from working in men’s and boys’ correctional institutions on the basis of law, practice, and/or tradition.
3. Some research suggests that female correctional officers have a calming effect on male prisoners.
4. Social feminists believed that girls involved in the correctional system were there primarily because of the oppressive nature of the social structure and the related effects of poverty and a lack of schooling.
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
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Some argue that the media and political figures attempt to generate public concern about cybercrime in order to secure sectional interests. Becker (1963) would label this behaviour as ______.
a. moral entrepreneurship b. dramatization c. secondary deviance d. moral panic
The cost of crime is in the ______.
a. hundreds b. thousands c. millions d. billions
A large number of young men and women as young as 12 years of age have been subjected to punishment beatings over the years for a variety of offenses mostly for antisocial behavior, including substance abuse, joy-riding or anything that may have offended the paramilitary hierarchy. The target group on both sides of the sectarian divide was almost all working class.
a. True b. False
The motives for the act or the nature of the act itself are not important considerations for ______.
a. pluralists b. consequentialists c. egoists d. relativists