Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The nation of Singapore has executed at least five people for drug offenses since 2008.
2. Cuba executes the most individuals for non-drug offenses in the world.
3. In Atkins v. Georgia, the Court added that when considering the method of execution the chosen method of execution is to be considered constitutional unless the convicted can show that a substantial risk of harm was increased through a given method when compared with another known and available alternative method. In other words, implementation of the death penalty, does not include, as a goal, the infliction of unnecessary pain.
4. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 or Supreme Court ruling first reinstated the death penalty (post Furman) as a possible punishment for federal criminal cases?
5. The specific deterrence model for the death penalty suggests that offenders committing a crime should be punished in a manner that is commensurate with the severity of the crime that they have committed.
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. False
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Three-strikes laws have resulted in prison overcrowding
a. True b. False
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A. Theories that focus on only race and gender as factors in criminal behavior B. Theories that focus primarily on the actions of authorities that exacerbate rather than ameliorate the crime problem C. Theories that direct attention toward the ways in which the larger contours of social organization increase the likelihood that some people will commit street crimes as they seek to make their way in that society D. Theories that hold offenders and their families responsible for crime