How did the Houses of Refuge receive their funding?
A. private donations from wealthy benefactors
B. government grants
C. selling the labor of inmates to private manufacturers
D. conducting tours of the facilities
C. selling the labor of inmates to private manufacturers
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Nye’s family-focused theory:
a. claims that criminal behavior results primarily from weak attachments to one’s peers. b. identifies three types of control: direct, indirect, and internal. c. suggests that girls commit less crime than boys even when parental control is lifted. d. was tested using statistical data compiled by the FBI. e. all of the above.
We can see lynching as operating on a number of different levels. One of the primary purposes was to strike fear into the hearts of Blacks in the ______ period as they were attempting to integrate into White society and assert their economic and political independence.
a. post-civil rights era b. post freedom movement c. post-civil wat d. post-Reconstruction
Sam, who was raised and lives in an impoverished area and has multiple antisocial friends, commits a robbery. Conservative criminologists would argue that Sam’s criminal behavior is a result of ______.
A. individual choice B. a combination of poverty and antisocial peers C. current state of poverty D. antisocial peers
Research has shown that a number of significant factors affect discretion. Your textbook lists eight of these factors. Name five of them.
What will be an ideal response?