The Criminal Element
Hitting, kicking, or biting an officer is known as this.
What is forceful resistance?
Some criminologist would argue that less money should be spent on this.
What are building prisons?
Gun___________programs are short-lived and voluntary.
What are buybacks?
It is estimated that enforcing America's drug laws costs the federal government about ________annually.
What is 16 billion dollars?
People's knowledge of an offender's criminal act and their public disapproval is accomplished through _________.
What is shaming?
A system allowing offenders to serve the final part of their sentence in the community.
What is Probation?
This type of case is at the top of the criminal justice wedding cake.
What is celebrated?
Plea bargaining benefits the prosecutor because it provides an option to do this.
What is dispose of a heavy case load?
This program served as a model for the Gang Resistance Education and Training Program.
What is DARE?
Shaw and McKay found in their study in Chicago that delinquency was concentrated in________ urban neighborhoods.
What is heterogeneous?
The decade of the 1990s was indeed a period of strong ________, which many attribute to the lowering of the crime rate.
What is economic growth?
A penalty involving a fixed amount of money as punishment for an offense.
What is a Fine?
When a person is sent to prison the most dysfunctional consequence involves this.
What is the breakup of families?
Private policing largely focuses on this.
What is loss control and prevention?
Successful completion of a drug court treatment program results in this.
What is dismissal of criminal charges?
Most research on community policing has a ________ level orientation.
What is micro?
A study from this country showed that graffiti cleanup, coupled with additional law enforcement, led to a 42 percent reduction in reported crimes against persons.
What is Australia?
Between 1975 and 1995, the state of Arizona required mandatory sentences for these first-time offenders.
Who are drunk drivers?
This is the term used for significant criminal activities in concentrated areas.
What are "Hot Spots?"
The acronym "FSE" stands for this.
What is Firearm Sentence Enhancement?
President George W. Bush funded this crime prevention program in 2001.
What is Project Safe Neighborhoods?
A private foundation supplying a criminal justice agency with funding is providing this.
What is "soft money?"
Traditional policing embraces this crime prevention theory.
What is deterrence?
The simple fact that there are far more people than patrol officers makes it unlikely that this crime control strategy effectively reduces crime.
What is Random Patrol?
This demographic shift in the 1990s arguably lowered the crime rate.
What is the aging of the baby boom generation?
Tags placed on retail clothing to activate an alarm if stolen are called ____________.
What is electronic article surveillance?
Meta-analyses indicate that treatment programs for offenders can do this.
What is lead to a reduction in recidivism?
This type of research typically involves less detail but a larger number of cases.
What is Quantative research?
This theory focuses on the places criminals visit, which they are likely to target for criminal activity.
What is crime pattern?
A legal document restricting someone's activities to prevent future criminal behavior.
What is an Injunction?