Jailsare locally operated short-term confinement facilities originally built to hold suspects following arrest and pending trial
a. True
b. False
a
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Discuss the downward trend of school violence using figure 2.3 and 2.4 on page 51
What will be an ideal response?
The principle goal of community corrections is to:
A. punish the offender as severely as possible. B. teach the offender to resist temptation by increasing the offender's contact with the criminal world. C. punish the offender with the least restrictive alternative. D. humanize the offender in the eyes of the community. E. attend to the needs of the community rather than those of the offender.
Supporters of tough crime-control policies use which of the following as justification for their support?
A) Crime causes poverty. B) Laws must ensure strict and certain penalties. C) Longer prison sentences removes hardened criminals from the community. D) Police must have resources and legal backing to pursue criminals. E) All of the above are justifications used to support tough crime-control policies.
The Pendleton Act of 1883 sought to eliminate:
A) The "good old boy" government. B) The political spoils system. C) Testing for promotion. D) Merit selection.