How many inmates are housed in private prisons?
What will be an ideal response?
• At the end of 2010, there were about 128,000 inmates in private prisons.
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Individuals whose knowledge of a criminal act is based on secondary sources of information may be subpoenaed
a. True b. False
Which of the following statements regarding nonterrorist mass shootings is most accurate?
a. Populous high-income countries experience such shootings at similar incidence rates. b. The United States has a lower incidence rate than other populous high-income countries. c. Perpetrators tend to be motivated by ideology, race, or religion. d. None of the above.
In West Virginia, the legislature reacted to an increase in violence against teachers and other school employees by passing a criminal statute with:
a. minimum mandatory jail sentences. b. presumptions of guilt. c. felony sanctions. d. no pre-trial diversion options.
A researcher found that African Americans experienced higher level of victimization than did whites.Using the data below state the null and alternative hypothesis, the test statistic, degrees of freedom, and the critical test statistics, and whether the null hypothesis (alpha = .05; two-tailed test) is rejected or not. The results of the F test indicate that the variances are not equal.
H0: No Relationship between race and victimization OR ?africanamerican = ?white
H1: There is a relationship between race and victimization OR ?africanamerican ? ?white
Obtained t= -7.27
Degrees of freedom = 25
Critical t=2.060
Reject the null hypothesis; there are differences between the two groups.