Some states pursued shifting their large-scale and often poorly maintained correctional facilities toward smaller, community home-type environments. This movement was influenced by the broader deinstitutionalization of state ______.
A. psychiatric facilities
B. workhouses
C. reform schools
D. halfway houses
A. psychiatric facilities
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What is defined as the killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or omission of another human being?
a. Murder b. Homicide c. Patricide d. Parricide
After a juvenile is formally taken into custody, the prosecutor makes a decision to release to the parent(s) or hold the juvenile in _____.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
In Burch v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court struck down a statute allowing for nonunanimous verdicts of six-member juries for nonpetty offenses.
A. True B. False
The positivist school of criminology posits that
A. individuals choose to commit crimes after weighing the consequences of their actions. B. all human actions are determined in accordance with the felicific calculus. C. human behavior is determined by forces beyond individual control. D. anomie is a breakdown of social order, which causes people to commit crimes.