A youthful offense is any act committed by a juvenile that is considered unacceptable for a child

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


False

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As a police chief, you need to keep track of crime trends and the areas in which they occur. You have just had a new system installed and do not know your way around. Where would you turn?

A) pin maps B) U.S. Department of Justice C) Crime Mapping Research Center D) Compstat

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This type of workplace violence occurs when the perpetrator has legitimate business at the establishment and becomes violent while receiving those services.

a. Criminal intent incidents b. Customer/Client incidents c. Worker-on-worker incidents d. Personal relationship incidents

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The “tough on crime” policies were pursued with malicious intent, as disproportionate reactions to school shootings, drug use, and youthful offender crime. 2. Ongoing research has delineated that adolescents and young adults are remarkably similar across most developmental areas. 3. The combination of strict punitive policies, along with the presence of school resource officers, increase the risk that the removal and arrest outcomes will continue across many schools nationwide. 4. Counterintuitively, being retained in grade level significantly decreases the risk of dropping out of high school. 5. High school dropout rates declined by half from 1967 to 2014.

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The cost of housing an offender in a halfway house is what?

a. Less expensive than prison b. About the same as a prison c. More expensive than prison d. There is no cost as the offenders must pay the housing costs.

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