Prosecutors sometimes defer criminal charges or sentencing in an effort to minimize the ______________ that often puts offenders back on the streets without any meaningful intervention, treatment, or prevention component
a. "revolving door"
b. "broken window"
c. "closed caption"
d. "decked hall"
a
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Punitive policies vastly increase the use of all forms of corrections. 2. We have proportionately more crimes these days than at any other period in our history. 3. The number of offenders sentenced to prison more than quadrupled from 1980 to 2009. 4. Our use of corrections is greatly in sync with what most other countries are doing. 5. Russia is the only other developed nation whose incarceration rate is close to that of the United States.
Under which of the following situations is a peace officer not justified in making an arrest?
a. A person restrained under a protective order goes to the victim's place of employment when prohibited. b. A prohibited person goes to a school to see his children when they are let out at the end of the school day. c. Arresting the person protected by a court order who invites the prohibited person to her residence in violation of the protective order. d. A man named in a protective order returns to his home and wants to speak to his wife in violation of a protective order.
_________ was an American captured by U.S. forces while fighting with the Taliban in 2001
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
In the case of the Prostitute Murders in California, (2000- 2001), what was the reason given for the killer to stab the youngest victim nearly 150 times and mutilate her face?
a. He wanted to make her ugly like all prostitutes he killed. b. She had cheated him out of drugs. c. She had cheated him out of money. d. She laughed at him because he was impotent.