The trend some call “criminalization” of mental illness refers to
A. the call for accountability when people with mental illness commit violent crimes.
B. a tendency to hold people with mental illness responsible for their inappropriate behavior.
C. the increased use of prisons to house people with mental illness.
D. defining those with mental illness as the “criminally insane”
ANS: C
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During the problem formulation stage of research, a research problem might be found unacceptable because
a. each of the other answers could render a problem unacceptable. b. it is financially impractical. c. it involves questions that are not scientific in nature. d. it is ethically impractical.
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A) Social Security. B) defense spending. C) Medicare. D) interest on the national debt.
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A) ?power and control stage B) ?preaffiliation stage C) ?intimacy stage D) ?differentiation stage