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Punishment is used for social _________________________.

If one were to say, “Only God has the right to take a life; the state does not.”, would this be an argument for or against the death penalty?

Proponents of the death penalty cite that mistakes have been made, resulting in the innocent being executed.

According to Chapter 1, select all of the following that are goals of the corrections system.

Which one of the following is a facility authorized to hold pretrial detainees and sentenced misdemeanants for periods longer than 48 hours?

Who among the following argued that criminality involved people and their punishment are functional in society, helping define norms and demonstrating to the public nature of societal expectations for conformity? 

Which one of the following is referred to as “assembly-line justice”?

_______________ is a reduction of a person’s sentence, at the discretion of the prison administrator, for good behavior, or for participation in vocational, educational, and treatment programs.

In the ________________ system, prison residents assessed a certain number of marks, based on the severity of their crime, at the time of sentencing.

Ford v. Wainwright ruled that a convicted person must comprehend both the fact that he or she has been sentenced to death and the reason for it.