answers to pass
government is..... - correct answer ✔✔the criminal justice system
What increased in the 60's and 70's - correct answer ✔✔crime and social unrest
loss of faith in government (60's and 70's) was caused by... - correct answer ✔✔-Vietnam war
-assassinations
-Attica prison riot
vietnam war - correct answer ✔✔-first time people could see what war actually looked like
-heavily televised
major assassinations during the 60's - correct answer ✔✔-JFK
-Martin Luther King Jr.
-Robert Kennedy
during the 60's and 70's, research found that.... - correct answer ✔✔traditional CCJS responses
have little impact on crime
Martison believed that... - correct answer ✔✔"nothing works"(in corrections
-assumption: in regards to corrections, nothing we do is working
-actually meant:we need to fix minor things to make the whole better
, "standard" policing strategies in the 60's and 70's found to be... - correct answer ✔✔ineffective
"standard" policing strategies ineffective(60s/70s) because... - correct answer ✔✔-new studies
found that traditional policing strategies were not as effective
-statement was made that CJS cannot protect people
80's and 90's punitive approaches to crime problem - correct answer ✔✔-three strikes law
-mandatory minimums
-death penalty
-increase in crimes eligible for death penalty
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 - correct answer ✔✔-authorization of
funding to put 100,000 new police officers in the streets
-made 60 more federal crimes eligible for the death penalty
-authorized $10 billion for new prison construction
80s and 90's prevention was... - correct answer ✔✔"soft on crime"
overall the level of crime has (risen/fallen) in recent years? - correct answer ✔✔fallen
even though crime levels have fallen, what is a big issue still happening? - correct answer ✔✔-
impact of crime on society is substantial
-a large portion of the population is still fearful of being a victim of crime
why we measure and track crime trends - correct answer ✔✔we want to know what crimes are
happening and how frequently they are happening