Most of the inmates at ________________ institutions are first-time offenders who are nonviolent and well behaved.
A. minimum-security
B. medium-security
C. maximum-security
D. supermax
Answer: A
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a. maintenance costs of jails and prisons b. salaries of law enforcement personnel c. the purchase of police cars d. the expense of private surveillance and security devices
Cyber warfare is generally committed by:
A. hackers. B. terrorist groups. C. governments. D. corporations.
Which of the following is a legitimate explanation for the fact that women are less likely to receive a death sentence than men?
A) A female offender is more likely to be a juvenile when she commits a murder. B) Women are more likely to kill strangers, rather than friends or family members. C) Homicides by women are less likely to involve the specific circumstances that increase the likelihood of a death sentence. D) Juries are less willing to sentence female offenders to death.
______ is a criterion of causality that requires a change in a predictor variable (X) to be consistently associated with some change in the explanatory variable (Y).
a. Causation b. Spuriousness c. Validity d. Correlation