Briefly explain how educational requirements for corrections departments in large urban areas differ from other areas.

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Some departments require only a bachelor's degree or even a high school education or GED. Those tend to be in areas where more highly educated workers are harder to attract and harder to keep. Prisons, jails, and probation and parole departments located in the larger urban centers tend to draw more educated staff who hold more progressive ideas about preventing recidivism and promoting rehabilitation.

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Auburn Prison was a part of which prison system?

a. Georgia b. New York c. Pennsylvania d. Texas

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Research shows that community policing programs ______.

A. have had a tremendous impact on crime reduction B. have no impact on citizen’s perceptions of the police C. are ineffective and should be discontinued D. have minimal effects on crime but greater effects on citizens’ perceptions of police

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The ethical system that justifies passing a law for the purpose of protecting people from harm is:

a. ethical formalism. b. ethics of care. c. legal moralism. d. utilitarianism.

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List and define three of the five philosophical principles on which the juvenile court movement was based.

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