Exam 18: Conclusion: How Can We Reduce Crime?

A secondary prevention approach thus recognizes that the seeds of juvenile delinquency and adult crime are planted long before delinquency and crime appear and that it is absolutely essential to focus prevention efforts on _____ in early childhood that set the stage for later offending.

Expanding the network of battered women's shelters and rape crisis centers is not a secondary prevention approach.

Although there are more than 21 million personal victimizations at the top of the funnel,at the bottom end just _____ persons eventual go to prison or jail.

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.

Greater income inequality should reduce crime.

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.

The huge number of _____ in the United States is an important reason for our high number of homicides.

A growing amount of evidence indicates that community policing and _____ may reduce crime and that community policing reduces fear of crime and may help lessen the incivilities of urban neighborhoods.

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

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

Secondary prevention aims to identify practices and situations that put certain individuals at risk for illness or injury.

Although a "get tough" approach has not been shown to work with common criminals,it may have more of a deterrent effect on potential which of the following?

Which of the following is an example of secondary prevention?

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.

What are the three types of prevention?

Which of the primary forms of prevention do you think would be most effective?

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

Which of the tertiary forms of prevention do you think would be most effective?