Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Prisoners residing in maximum-security facilities are more subject to the pains of imprisonment than that of minimum security facilities.
2. Transgender female prisoners are much more likely to report being sexually assaulted then other inmates.
3. Placing someone in prison is a very expensive decision, costing states and the federal government at least US$50,000 per year for adult males and more than double that for women and children.
4. Goffman (1961) believed that total institutions had the effect of debilitating their inmates.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True

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Perhaps the most troublesome reality about the use of excessive force is that there are multiple causes of it. Of the five kinds of police misconduct, at least three of them can lead to this type of deviance. And because this is true, there is no one "cure" or approach to doing away with it. Write an essay engaging all of the multiple causes of excessive force that you can think of. Then spend some time in your essay reflecting upon how all of this creates quite a frustrating reality for police officers, for police leaders, for police review systems, and/or for students of police behavior.

What will be an ideal response?

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Numerous forms of the feminist perspective were identified and discussed in the chapter. But none of these perspectives place emphasis on ______.

a. control of women’s sexuality and reproductive systems b. inequality in terms of access to the institutions of education and economy c. child-rearing differences between daughters and sons d. the influence of a capitalistic system

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In the event an inmate does not understand the rules and regulations in the languages initially provided,

a) the rules and regulations shall be read to the inmate b) the officer will confirm the inmate does not understand and document the attempt and method used c) a translation shall be provided in an understandable language d) the officer will document the inmate's name, the date/time, and file it in the inmate's folder

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Name the four types of things that can be constitutionally searched and seized. Give an example of each

What will be an ideal response?

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