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?

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______ 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

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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

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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

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