Exam 18: Conclusion: How Can We Reduce Crime

Currently,the United States lags behind many _____ nations that already provide government sponsored day care and flexible work schedules.

Police departments should develop _____ for discrimination and brutality and take every step possible to identify and remove the officers responsible for them.

The huge number of _____ in the United States is an important reason for our high number of homicides.

Police brutality and racial profiling should be abolished.

Undertaking social policies to create decent-paying jobs for the poor,especially those in urban communities,is a form of primary prevention.

We can wave a magic wand and make crime disappear.

Which of the following decreases the odds that children will come to respect the need to obey laws and other social norms?

A _____ prevention approach to crime focuses on preventing recidivism,or repeat offending,by offenders and on protecting society from these offenders.

Discuss one reason why the U.S.criminal justice system is seemingly designed to fail and give one possible solution.

United States prenatal and postnatal programs are currently inadequate,leaving many poor children at risk for _____ impairment.

A growing amount of evidence indicates that community policing and _____ may reduce crime and that community policing reduces fear of crime and may help lessen the incivilities of urban neighborhoods.

_____ prevention aims to identify practices and situations that put certain individuals at risk for illness or injury.

Secondary prevention aims to identify practices and situations that put certain individuals at risk for illness or injury.

Although a "get tough" approach has not been shown to work with common criminals,it may have more of a deterrent effect on potential which of the following?

Although there are more than 21 million personal victimizations at the top of the funnel,at the bottom end just _____ persons eventual go to prison or jail.

Unemployment lines indicate a social problem.

Matching: Match the term or concept with the correct description.

Crime is less likely when families live in apartment buildings,public housing projects,and other types of crowded housing.

A secondary prevention approach thus recognizes that the seeds of juvenile delinquency and adult crime are planted long before delinquency and crime appear and that it is absolutely essential to focus prevention efforts on _____ in early childhood that set the stage for later offending.