Chapter 14 True/False Self-Quiz

. A significant percentage of American citizens are incarcerated.

. Overcrowded prisons mean that more resources are available for the rehabilitation and re-entry of inmates into society.

. Prison inmates come from all walks of life with evenly distributed socio-economic statuses.

. Children are not allowed to visit their parents in prison.

. In the 1970s, the United States gathered mentally ill offenders into secure mental health facilities.

. Prisons and jails are not equipped to deal with infectious and chronic diseases and do not provide adequate dietary and exercise programs to keep inmates healthy.

. The "war" approach to crime considers criminals the enemy.

. The tension between protecting the public and safeguarding the constitutional and civil rights of individuals is a major challenge of policing.

. "Smart policing" relies on the experience and intuition of individual police officers to roughly predict where crime will happen.

. The USA PATRIOT Act reduces judicial oversight of telephone and Internet surveillance.

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