The Criminal Justice System Relies on Discretion to Make Operational

question 36

Multiple Choice

The criminal justice system relies on discretion to make operational decisions. These discretionary decisions made by criminal justice professionals produce a(n) _____.

• A) routinized criminal justice process
• B) formal criminal justice process
• C) communalist criminal justice process
• D) informal criminal justice process

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Definitions:

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data, often the mean, median, or mode.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that indicates the dispersion or variability of a set of numerical data points around the mean.

Sample Size

The number of observations or participants included in a statistical sample.

Mean Value

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all the numbers by the count of the numbers.