What are some of the practical approaches and programs suggested by anomie theories?
What will be an ideal response?
Perhaps the best known program that emerged during this era was the Mobilization for Youth (MFY) program. This program aimed to improve educational and employment opportunities for young people in poverty-stricken communities. Later, more programs followed that sought to extend opportunities to all residents of the poorer neighborhoods.
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The Herrera v. Collins decision severely limited access by state defendants to federal courts, with the ruling that new evidence of innocence is no reason for a federal court to order a new state trial if constitutional grounds are lacking
a. True b. False
If a relation between variables is direct for a time and then becomes inverse, this is known as a curvilinear association
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Polygraph evidence is frequently admissible as evidence in criminal courts
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following facts about familial influences is not true?
a. The rise in violent crime parallels the rise in families abandoned by fathers b. The type of aggression and hostility demonstrated by a future criminal is often foreshadowed in unusual aggressiveness as early as age five or six c. High-crime neighborhoods are characterized by high concentrations of families abandoned by mothers d. The future criminal tends to be an individual rejected by other children as early as the first grade