The third component of the criminal justice system, __________________, also is an often overlooked partner in the community policing effort
a. judges
b. dispatch
c. court records
d. corrections
d
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Many offenders are victims of biological, social, and psychological conditions that drive their propensity towards violence
a. True b. False
The measure of central tendency least affected by extreme scores, either very small or very large scores, would be the:
a. mean. b. median. c. mode. d. grand mean.
Which reformer wrote in his book On Crimes and Punishment that “it is essential that [punishment] be public, speedy, necessary, the minimum possible in the given circumstances, proportionate to the crime, and determined by law”?
a. Jeremy Bentham b. Cesare Beccaria c. John Howard d. William Penn
In her study of staff members supervising a cottage of boys in a juvenile training facility, what did Inderbitzin (2006) find regarding the different role correctional officers take when supervising children?
A. That their role does not change from the type of role they take on in adult facilities. B. That they serve as their adolescent inmates’ guardians, keepers, counselors, and role models. C. That the staff members who were most effective were those who took on a hack role. D. That staff members disliked working with these juveniles in the study.