Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Standing too close to someone while speaking, or picking one’s nose is an example of a Folkway.
2. Mores are backed by official sanctions (or punishments).
3. The study of deviance is not about why certain individuals violate norms, but instead about how those norms are constructed.
4. Both the percentage of children living in extreme poverty and the percentage of those living in households with very high incomes have increased.
1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
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In many agencies, contemporary policing:
a. remains authoritarian. b. is paramilitaristic. c. aspires to predictability in performance. d. assumes officers are incapable of independent decision making. e. all of the above.
What are the three political jurisdictions by which government exercises law enforcement authority?
What will be an ideal response?
Joe Nosra, a prison inmate, left custody during a supervised tour of an industrial plant near the prison. A month later he was apprehended and prosecuted for the crime of escape. In his defense he claimed that he left custody to avoid being sexually molested by another prisoner. The evidence disclosed that Nosra had made no endeavor to return to lawful custody. Which of the following statements
is correct? a. There was no basis to charge Nosra because he was not within the prison at the time he left custody. b. The facts disclose that Nosra has a good defense to the charge of escape. c. Nosra may have had a good defense if he had turned himself in to police promptly after having escaped. d. None of these statements are correct.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Dark assistants’ are research assistants who pose as subjects in a study. 2. A simulation is a situation or game that attempts to mimic, or imitate, key features of reality. 3. Debriefing is reassurance of the subjects and an explanation of the purposes of the research after completion of a study (particularly one involving deception), 4. The chief advantage of unobtrusive methods of data gathering is their non-reactivity. 5. The leading disadvantages in employing secretive means of gathering data are ethical questions, particularly that of privacy invasion.