A public social service agency would be classified as a host setting.
A) True
B) False
The 1968 Safe Streets Act expanded the federal government's role in criminal justice through
A) increased regulations for state and local police activities.
B) new requirements for juvenile offenders.
C) federal research grants and block grants to state law enforcement agencies.
D) a streamlined path for appealing criminal cases.
Agencies characterized by the presence of a variety of professional staff where the main service provided is not social services is called a hostel setting.
A) True
B) False
In Southern states, African-Americans' disproportionate contact with the criminal justice system began
A) after the war on drugs.
B) after the Revolutionary War.
C) after President Johnson's war on crime.
D) after the Civil War.
The business organization of Fastbuck and the social service agency WINK were compared in the text from a contingency theory perspective.
A) True
B) False
The Controlled Substances Act has been used as the main policy to advance the war on drugs. It criminalized use of
A) certain drugs assumed to have the highest risk of addiction and no medical use.
B) certain drugs in the possession of juveniles.
C) certain drugs in the possession of people receiving Social Security income or food stamps.
D) certain drugs in the possession of a pregnant woman.
Negative entropy is a system's tendency to move from a more simplified to a more complex existence.
A) True
B) False
The U.S. has spent more money on incarceration than
A) restorative justice.
B) rehabilitation.
C) community policing.
D) deterrence.
Boundaries are socially expected behavior patterns usually determined by an individual's status in a particular society.
A) True
B) False
Incarceration's ripple effect refers to
A) its relationship to voting.
B) its disproportionate impact on minority neighborhoods.
C) its impact on families and communities.
D) its contribution to the national economy.
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