Exam 18: Conclusion: How Can We Reduce Crime?

Which of the following would not only help protect these women from additional abuse,but would also reduce the likelihood that any children they might have will grow up in violent households?

A _____ prevention approach to crime focuses on preventing recidivism,or repeat offending,by offenders and on protecting society from these offenders.

Racial _____ in housing remains extensive and has serious consequences for African-Americans.

Currently,the United States lags behind many _____ nations that already provide government sponsored day care and flexible work schedules.

Building even more prisons will cost the nation _____ of dollars but will not reduce crime significantly.

We can wave a magic wand and make crime disappear.

Provide several examples of secondary prevention.

Unemployment lines indicate a social problem.

Which of the following decreases the odds that children will come to respect the need to obey laws and other social norms?

Crime is less likely when families live in apartment buildings,public housing projects,and other types of crowded housing.

Undertaking social policies to create decent-paying jobs for the poor,especially those in urban communities,is a form of primary prevention.

Any measures to strengthen the urban neighborhoods via social integration and strengthening the social institutions of urban neighborhoods should focus on:

The classical school stresses the need to identify the social and other causes of disease so that efforts can be launched to target these causes.

What effect does the funnel effect have on reducing crime?

Which of the following stresses the need to identify the social and other causes of disease so that efforts can be launched to target these causes?

A secondary prevention approach fails to recognize that serious crime is proportionately committed by a small group of chronic offenders.

According to Kozol (1991),schools in urban areas are beset by "_____" that generate criminogenic conditions.

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

The criminal justice system operates like a funnel.

_____ 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.