A few years ago, the Bureau of Justice Statistics announced findings that
male military veterans were less than half as likely as nonveteran men of the same age to be in prison (the rates reported were 630 versus 1,390 per 100,000 male prisoners, respectively). Does this mean that we can say with confidence that military service decreases a man's likelihood of committing a criminal offense? What other influences might be operating to lower the likelihood of crime commission by military veterans?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary.
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a. Uprooted b. Passive c. Oppressed d. Violated
Data in disarray mean that they are arranged from high to low or low to high in precise order of score magnitude
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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A. It was a walled prison with large cell blocks that contained stacks of three or more tiers of one- or two-man cells. B. It included all the treatment-program control mechanisms of the correctional institution. C. It arose by default as the correctional institution faded and the fairness of coerced prison rehabilitation programming began to be challenged. D. It emerged as penologists turned to the field of medicine as a model for their work and became the dominant type of prison in the 1950s.