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C 1. This concept refers to the proportion of crimes that result in arrest.
D 2. Punishing some people in order to deter criminal behavior in the general population.
H 3. This approach attempts to cut crime by imprisoning high rate offenders.
A. the Auburn system E. gross incapacitation
B. the biological approach F. marginal deterrence
C. the clearance rate G. the medical model
D. general deterrence H. selective incapacitation
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A 4. Which of the following IS NOT an assumption necessary for incapacitation to work?
A. Behavior is rational and involves balancing of costs and benefits.
B. Offenders who are incapacitated are not quickly replaced by other offenders.
C. Prison does not reinforce future offending more than it reduces future offending.
D. Some offenders are repeaters who are likely to keep offending in the future.
D 5. Most European countries have low crime rates today because
A. they use mass executions to control crime.
B. they have very high imprisonment rates.
C. they send their criminals to other countries.
D. they have eliminated most structural poverty.
TRUE OR FALSE QUESTIONS -- PUT T OR F IN THE BLANKS
T 6. European countries eventually solved surplus population problems by sending millions of people to other continents.
F 7. The majority of the millions of arrests in the US each year are for felonies.
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8. What three special interest groups benefit from the fifty billion dollar a year industry created by the
imprisonment binge and how does each benefit?
Corporations profit from building more prisons and selling goods to prisons.
Police asset forfeiture leads to bigger budgets and more jobs for police.
Prison guards and unions more union members, more pay and benefits for prison guards.
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9. Why does Gary Johnson (former New Mexico Gov) think that the war on drugs is a waste of money?
Johnson argues that the drug war is a huge waste of money and has little or no impact on drug use
or crime rates. It is the wrong approach to the problem. Offering more treatment programs instead
of prison would save public money and would be more humane for people with drug problems.