Explain how the practice of “transportation” was used to enrich the leaders of European countries.
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The practice of “transportation”--shipping convicts to distant colonies--had economic motives. The exploitation of material riches from the colonies posed very challenging labor requirements, so prisoners became an obvious workforce. The need for a prisoner workforce grew as native populations, whom colonists tried to enslave, died out from warfare, diseases, and brutal working conditions. At first, wayward children and the poor were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the colonies, but this practice reduced the domestic workforce. Sending convicts overseas was a temporary solution to the severe labor shortage and the great potential to extract wealth from conquered lands. Prisoners facing death sentences had their penalties commuted to transportation based on the physical condition of the convicts.
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A) Erving Goffman. B) Marvin Wolfgang. C) Edwin Lemert. D) Edwin Sutherland.
Which of the following can prove that the victim did NOT consent to the sexual act(s)?
A. a victim's statement B. documentation of injuries C. the use of a weapon D. all of these
Discuss your opinion as to whether or not neighborhood notification laws for released individuals convicted of sex crime would increase public safety. Do these laws make it harder for individuals convicted of sex crime to succeed? Why or why not? Does your state have a notification process for community members? If so, what it is?
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In 1973, President Nixon issued an executive order creating the ____________ to concentrate federal drug enforcement responsibilities within one agency of government
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word.