Explain what is meant by women being a numerical minority in corrections.
What will be an ideal response?
What this numerical “minority” status for girls and women has meant is that
institutions and programming are, and have been, typically geared toward boys and
men.
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Members of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs often came from which profession?
a. mining b. construction c. manufacturing d. military
The most important contribution made by the ecological school is
a. Its claim that people age out of crime. b. The concept of the existence of deviant subcultures. c. Its claim that the community has a significant influence on behavior. d. The development of techniques of neutralization.
Sherry entered the home of April with the intent of taking property without permission. This is the crime of ______, which is a ______.
a. robbery; violent crime b. robbery; property crime c. burglary; property crime d. larceny-theft; victimless crime
There are two types of prison work programs. The first type provides the inmate a trade or a skill. What does the second type do?
a. teaches inmates social skills b. keeps inmates productive c. maintains the functioning of the prison itself d. provides the inmates an education