Exam 11: Toward Violence Prevention

A program called ______ was designed to reduce gang violence,illegal gun possession,and gun violence in communities and was based on deterrence theory,which contends that crimes can be prevented when would-be offenders perceive the costs of crime to be greater than the benefits.

Violence can happen ______.

Intervention efforts are generally aimed at the entire population to reduce the risk factors and enhance protective factors that prevent violence from occurring in the first place.

A number of scholars suggest that a fundamental preventative measure would involve reducing ______ in U.S.society to substantially reduce violence.

It is possible to cure violence.

Prevention methods are aimed at intervening after something has already occurred or is at a high risk of occurring.

______ generally focuses law enforcement efforts on proactively solving "problems" related to crime rather than reactively responding to calls for service after a crime has already occurred.

The U.S.Department of Justice provides information on the programs that have been evaluated using RCTs and proven to be effective in reducing various types of violence and aggression on a website called CrimeSolutions.gov.

Discuss the findings of the Minneapolis domestic violence experiment.

Provide three specific examples of criminal justices responses to violence in the United States.

What are the social costs of violence within a society?

PTSD is not only be found in war veterans.

The ______ has the highest prison population in the world.