Measures of jail capacity were operationalized as whether or not there were more inmates housed at the end of the year than the original building design called for. This would be an example of what level of measurement?
a. nominal
b. ordinal
c. interval
d. ratio
a
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Which of the following is NOT one of the operators running private prisons in the United States?
a. Cornell Corrections b. Federal Correctional Workforce c. Corrections Corporation of America d. Correctional Services Corporation
What was the practical result of the Gregg decision?
a. The death penalty was abolished. b. The death penalty was admonished. c. The death penalty was reinstated. d. The death penalty was reviewed.
The concept of anomie refers to:
a. the process by which offenders are labeled as criminal. b. a breakdown in the rules or norms of a society. c. the biological factors that increase the likelihood of crime. d. political influences on crime policy. e. the conflict between economic classes.
In which of the following situations have the courts found a use of unreasonable force?
a. Police dog grabbed and held a defendant's arm until the police arrived. b. Use of pepper spray on an armed suspect. c. Binding a suspect's ankles to his wrists behind his back (hogtying). d. Using a single application of the taser gun.