Identify and describe four of McCaghy’s types of child molesters.

What will be an ideal response?


High interaction – have known the children for some time and usually perform or have performed genital fondling; incestuous – take advantage of a child living in the same household; asocial – involved in illegal careers; senile – older, poorly educated offenders; career – persistent offense patterns involving childre molestation; spontaneous-aggressive – have little previous contact with their victims and tend to commit their offenses in a physcially forceful and unplanned way.

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a. True b. False

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Identify and define the four general requirements for a successful modern-day claim of self-defense

What will be an ideal response?

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At all political levels, corrections is only one of many services operated by the government and paid for by tax revenues. Thus, corrections must vie with other government programs for ________________.

A. correctional uncertainty B. funding C. goal conflict D. None of these are correct

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Organizational __________________ define or explain how to achieve the organization’s desired or preferred results.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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