Facilities designed to hold convicted felons for a duration of 1 year or more are known as ______.

A. prisons
B. quarantines
C. jails
D. diversion


A. prisons

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The _____ perspective recommends that drug treatment begin for offenders while they are incarcerated, and that when they are released from prison, a cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention program should be administered while they are under supervision.

A. treatment retention B. cognitive-behavioral C. motivational interviewing D. forensic behavioral

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Who invented the polygraph (lie detection machine)?

a. Hatfield; b. McCoy; c. Larson; d. Clark.

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______ is credited as being the Father of Victimology because of the enormous amount of energy he expended into the field through his writing and the promotion of his ideas.

a. Hans von Hentig b. Benjamin Mendelsohn c. Stephan Schafer d. Marvin Wolfgang

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