Passing laws mandating longer periods of incarceration to reduce the likelihood that an offender will be capable of committing future offenses is based on the strategy of ________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: incapacitation
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Discuss the problem of minority overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system.
What will be an ideal response?
______ involves creating some false source of income that accounts for the money used to buy a house, purchase a car, or open a bank account.
a. Health care fraud b. Securities fraud c. Money laundering d. Mail fraud
When a minor, in the presence of a sworn officer, is instructed to dress age appropriately and attempt to purchase alcoholic beverages from a store to see if the minor is sold the goods, police are engaging in what is known as a ________
A) decoy operation B) reverse sting operation C) sting operation D) reverse decoy operation
Which of the following is one of the three major reasons for case attrition?
a. jail overcrowding c. personal standards of justice b. overabundance of evidence d. poorly written laws