Who are high-risk offenders? How does Straus suggest they be identified?
What will be an ideal response?
Straus suggests two criteria to help identify high-risk offender cases (Straus, 1993). Criterion A: That the suspect initiated three or more instances of violence in the preceding year. Criterion B: That the suspect threatened a partner with a weapon in hand or verbally threatened to kill the partner; that medical treatment was needed by the victim (regardless of whether it was obtained); that physical abuse of a child occurred; that the suspect was physically abused when a child; that severe violence was known to have occurred between the parents of the suspect; that the suspect was drunk more than five times in the past year; that there was drug abuse in the past year; that there was extreme dominance or attempts to achieve such dominance; that the suspect thinks there are some situations when it is okay for a man [woman] to hit his wife [her partner]; that the suspect physically forced sex on the partner; that there was extensive or repeated destruction of property; that the abuse involved threats or actual killing or injuring of a pet.
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A) General deterrence B) ?Specific deterrence C) ?Situational prevention D) ?Just desserts E) ?Targeted deterrence
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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