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Discuss what is meant when it is said that corrections has an ambiguous mission. What role does a mission play? How does this ambiguity affect the system? What does the public want from the system? What do offenders want? What do victims want? Communities? Discuss whether or how these desires can be reconciled.


Definitions:

Simple Regression

A statistical method for quantifying the relationship between a single independent variable and a single dependent variable.

Intercept

In statistics and mathematics, the point at which a line crosses the y-axis in a graph, representing the value of the dependent variable when the independent variable is zero.

Error Term

The difference between observed values and estimated values in a statistical model.

Multicollinearity

A statistical phenomenon where two or more predictor variables in a multiple regression model are highly correlated, potentially distorting estimates.

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