By design, prisons are intended to house:
A. Only serious offenders
B. Long Term offenders
C. Individuals convicted of a crime
D. All of these
E. Both B and C
E. Both B and C
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One explanation for the disproportionate number of mentally ill people in jail and prison is that many
a. were mistakenly categorized as mentally ill by a criminal justice system that doesn't have enough qualified professionals to diagnose them. b. people diagnosed as mentally ill have died or left the system but were not removed from the jail and prisoner count. c. newly admitted offenders are uneducated and are mistakenly counted as mentally ill. d. mentally ill people are susceptible to being arrested because they have no shelter and treatment on the streets.
A ______ is set by legislatures.
a. parental waiver b. judicial waiver c. prosecutorial discretion d. statutory exclusion
Pharmacological treatment can do all of the following except:
A. render addicts more amenable to treatment B. reduce cravings C. provide an immediate form of treatment D. minimize the pleasurable effects of drug and alcohol use
Define the convict code.
a. a label given to an inmate who reveals the activity of another inmate to authorities b. an inmate’s sense of masculine standing within the prison culture c. a set of standards attributed to the true convict d. the process of being socialized into the prison culture