Consider the effectiveness of shock incarceration

What will be an ideal response?


• Intermediate sanction
• Involves brief periods of incarceration under physically and psychologically demanding conditions.
• Designed to break the prisoner down, strip them of their street identity, and they systematically build them up by providing discipline and self-control
• Research fails to prove effectiveness

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Evidence without a confirmed _____ ___ ________ cannot be included in reconstruction

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Peterson and Panfil (2017)’s foundation for a developmental theory of female gang membership highlights the need for understanding of females’ gendered experiences of gang involvement as distinct from males’. 2. Contemporary research has confirmed Thrasher’s (1927) assertions that joining gangs is a natural process. 3. One possible motivation for a youth to join a gang is for instrumental purposes. 4. “Cyberbanging” refers to gang members’ use of the Internet as a venue for gang-related activity. 5. Some characteristics of modern-day schools, including zero-tolerance policies, may increase gang activity in schools by eroding student–teacher bonds.

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One local benefits of an international perspective is the development of _____ competence

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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FBI Behavioral Science Unit members Roy Hazelwood and John Douglas made a distinction between serial killers as ______ and ____________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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