Compare and contrast informal and formal social control

What will be an ideal response?


Informal social control refers to the influences of parents, families, peers, and the community in training individuals about the norms, rules, and customs of a locality in an attempt to compel conformity

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When inmates are released from correctional institutions during the day so that they can work or attend school, it is known as:

a. day leave. b. discretionary release. c. development release. d. furlough. e. work and educational release.

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The model of justice in which the largest portion of criminal cases forms the bottom layers and the few serious cases form the top layer is called:

a. assembly line justice. b. bureaucratic justice. c. rational justice. d. wedding-cake illustration justice.

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The Youth Aid Section in New Zealand is a national police unit of trained officers that diverts more than half of young offenders out of the justice system

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The Supreme Court stated that a school child has little need for protection of the Eighth Amendment in

a. Miller v. Alabama b. Arave v. Creech c. Ingraham v. Wright d. Rhodes v. Chapman

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