Explain the difference between halfway houses and work-release programs.

What will be an ideal response?


Example should indicate that an offender may be sentenced to a residential community housing facility (halfway house) as an intermediate sanction. Here, they are secured at night but work, attend school, and go to treatment during the day. Work release is when an offender is sentenced to a secure facility (typically jail) and only leaves to go to work.

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The David Berkowitz case resulted in notoriety-for-profit laws or Son of ________ laws

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The subfunctions of reconstruction are:

a. Disk-to-disk copy b. Image-to-disk copy c. Image-to-partition copy d. All of the above

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Ethnicity differs from race in terms of

A. self-reporting differences. B. immigration differences. C. cultural differences. D. religious differences.

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An “ex post facto” law would be one that

(a) lowers the penalty for a crime after it was committed. (b) criminalizes previously-lawful conduct after it was committed. (c) creates a new defense to a criminal charge. (d) reduces a felony to a misdemeanor.

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