According to Petersilia (2004), with the best methods currently available and with adequate budgeting, recidivism could be reduced by ______.

a. 10%
b. 50%
c. 30%
d. 45%


c. 30%

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Electronic monitoring affords authorities the opportunity to keep close tabson low-level offenders

a. True b. False

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According to Bursik and Grasmick’s theory of community control:

a. there are two levels of control: public and private. b. the allocation of law enforcement resources is most important to understanding why certain neighborhoods have high crime rates. c. economic resources directly determine an area’s level of crime. d. the lower classes tend to have more problems regulating their behavior. e. the effect of economic deprivation on crime and delinquency is indirect and mediated by the capacity of a neighborhood to solicit human and economic resources.

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Which of the following individuals were identified as “psychosexual serial killers?”

a. Ted Bundy b. John Wayne Gacy c. Jeffery Dahmer d. all of these

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Identify the four most common preemployment tests used by police departments.

What will be an ideal response?

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