SOCS 325 Week 8 Final Exam Questions and Verified
Approved Answers Graded 100% A +
By how much percentage do drug courts reduce drug use and recidivism? [Chapter 4] -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -35% each
CJS response to drugs - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -1. Punishment. This does nothing to change
behavior (ex: Nancy Reagan "Just say no" campaign
2. it involves the arrest, conviction, and punishment and drug dealers. What aggressive
incarceration of dealers fails to appreciate is the fact they are replaceable.
Describe the two standard bearers of the tough on crime drug laws? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔
--Rockefeller Drug Laws: provided the harshest punishment. The penality was high for selling 2
oz or possessing 4 oz of substances (15 years to life).
-Anti-Drug abuse act of 1986: created mandatory minimum drug sentences in the federal system.
The punishment is tied to quantity.
Factors of treatment failure - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ --Inappropriate treatment modalities
-Untrained workers
-Interventions in less ideal setting s
-Failing to address other health and situational problems
, How many % of state and federal prison inmates are drug offenders? - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔ --25% of state inmates
-2/3'ds of federal inmates
How many prison inmates meet the standard diagnostic criteria for alcohol/and or drug abuse
dependence? Corrections population? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ --Inmates are 60-80%
-Entire corrections is 70%
How much money was the war on drugs cost tax payers? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -$1
trillion
Logic of supply control - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -If we can limit the supply, availability will
be restricted, price will increase, and users stop buying.
However purchasing is insensitive to price when it comes especially when it comes to factors
like dependence and decision making.
More promising strategy of identifying individuals with substance abuse problems - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Using medical facilities as intercept points. It uses motivating techniques to
encourage treatment-seeking behavior.
The SBIRT (screening, brief intervention, and refererall to treatment) is a good indicated as a
standardized screening protocol.
Approved Answers Graded 100% A +
By how much percentage do drug courts reduce drug use and recidivism? [Chapter 4] -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -35% each
CJS response to drugs - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -1. Punishment. This does nothing to change
behavior (ex: Nancy Reagan "Just say no" campaign
2. it involves the arrest, conviction, and punishment and drug dealers. What aggressive
incarceration of dealers fails to appreciate is the fact they are replaceable.
Describe the two standard bearers of the tough on crime drug laws? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔
--Rockefeller Drug Laws: provided the harshest punishment. The penality was high for selling 2
oz or possessing 4 oz of substances (15 years to life).
-Anti-Drug abuse act of 1986: created mandatory minimum drug sentences in the federal system.
The punishment is tied to quantity.
Factors of treatment failure - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ --Inappropriate treatment modalities
-Untrained workers
-Interventions in less ideal setting s
-Failing to address other health and situational problems
, How many % of state and federal prison inmates are drug offenders? - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔ --25% of state inmates
-2/3'ds of federal inmates
How many prison inmates meet the standard diagnostic criteria for alcohol/and or drug abuse
dependence? Corrections population? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ --Inmates are 60-80%
-Entire corrections is 70%
How much money was the war on drugs cost tax payers? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -$1
trillion
Logic of supply control - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -If we can limit the supply, availability will
be restricted, price will increase, and users stop buying.
However purchasing is insensitive to price when it comes especially when it comes to factors
like dependence and decision making.
More promising strategy of identifying individuals with substance abuse problems - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Using medical facilities as intercept points. It uses motivating techniques to
encourage treatment-seeking behavior.
The SBIRT (screening, brief intervention, and refererall to treatment) is a good indicated as a
standardized screening protocol.
