Surveillance cameras have caught prison inmates teaching other inmates how to disarm a police officer. Apply Sutherland's Differential Association theory to the prison subculture

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Should include these potential items.

In the prison setting, the inmates can only associate with other inmates.
They become the intimate personal group.
Frequency, duration, intensity, and priority are present.
The "training" received by the inmates would include the motives and techniques.

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There is a common perception that most crime is committed by ______.

a. Whites b. Hispanics c. Asians d. Blacks

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Some scholars think that this fact arises from a _____ in which disputes that might fade away in other regions become deadly in the South

a. southern subculture of violence b. greater availability of opportunity c. decreased access to nutrition as youths d. southern subculture of illiteracy

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Explain the primary purpose of the official police report and how the three-pronged rule of thumb applies in writing official reports

What will be an ideal response?

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The cost of confining an inmate with a severe ____________ to special housing is two-and-a-half times greater than that for an inmate not on psychotropic medication

a. mental illness
b. sexual compulsion
c. drug addiction
d. physical malady

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