Chapter 14 End of Chapter Quiz

Criminal Justice in the Future: Issues and Concerns
. The U.S. prison population accounts for _____ of the world's prison inmates.

. The U.S. incarceration rate is _____ the rates of Western European countries.

. Why is the U.S. incarceration rate problematic?

. How are drugs related to crime?

. This allows the government to look at data held by Internet service providers and cell-phone companies.

. Which term refers to lessening or removing penalties for criminal prosecution, arrest, and imprisonment?

. This gave broad and sweeping powers to law enforcement to conduct surveillance on individuals' telephone and Internet communications.

. This is the policy of removing mentally ill people from public mental-health institutions and closing part or all of those institutions.

. This term refers to increased reliance on incarceration, surveillance, and law enforcement and its relationship to the establishment of for-profit incarceration and probation/parole services, and businesses that supply goods and services to prisons and jails.

. Which amendment particularly protects citizens against intrusions into their privacy by the government?

. The United States relies on incarceration much less than any other country.

. The term "war" is a good metaphor for drug policy.

. There are no benefits to the legalization of some drugs.

. Because of mandatory-minimum sentence policies, prisons are packed with offenders serving sentences for relatively minor offenses.

. Incarceration rates are evenly distributed across the U.S. population.

. Prisoners, parolees, probationers, convicted sex offenders, and others with criminal records are never denied rights and responsibilities, or access to public benefits.

. As part of the "new professionalism" in policing, good policing depends only upon the training in a particular department.

. The criminal justice system continuously attempts to maintain order in an environment of shifting laws, unstable social forces, fluctuating cultural politics, and changing social values.

. It is difficult to attribute the relatively lower crime rate in recent years solely to increased incarceration.

. Prison makes all offenders better citizens.

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