Exam 18: Conclusion: How Can We Reduce Crime

A developmental focus on early childhood risk factors that will help reduce delinquency and adult crime would include:

The classical school stresses the need to identify the social and other causes of disease so that efforts can be launched to target these causes.

Primary prevention tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury.

Neighborhood dilapidation increases the odds that children will come to respect the need to obey laws and other social norms.

Which of the following would not only help protect these women from additional abuse,but would also reduce the likelihood that any children they might have will grow up in violent households?

Building even more prisons will cost the nation billions of dollars:

The criminal justice system operates like a funnel.

Any measures to strengthen the urban neighborhoods via social integration and strengthening the social institutions of urban neighborhoods should focus on:

Racial segregation in housing remains extensive and has serious consequences for African-Americans.

What effect does the funnel effect have on reducing crime?

Providing prenatal and postnatal nutrition and other health related services is a quandary prevention approach.

Which of the following tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury?

_____ prevention tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury.

The _____ penalty has no general deterrent effect and costs at least twice as much as life imprisonment.

The huge drop throughout all stages of the funnel underscores the _____ of reliance on the criminal justice system to reduce crime.

Which of the following has no general deterrent effect and costs at least twice as much as life imprisonment?

Although we are not about to change masculinity overnight,it is possible for parents to begin to raise their _____ according to a different value system.

Which of the following aims to identify practices and situations that put certain individuals at risk for illness or injury?

Which of the following is an example of primary prevention?

Greater income inequality should reduce crime.