Side Effects of Punishment Can Sometimes Include

question 153

Multiple Choice

Side effects of punishment can sometimes include:

• A) improvements in mood.
• B) enhanced social behavior.
• C) Both a and b are correct.
• D) Neither a nor b is correct.

Define and recognize different legal and correctional terms and concepts such as LFOs and types of prisons.

Identify key historical events and policies that have influenced current correctional practices and populations.

Analyze the impact of social policies, such as the war on drugs, on prison populations and the criminal justice system.

Examine trends in prison populations, including the growth of the female prison population and the creation of new classes of prisoners.

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Definitions:

Average Range

In statistics, it is the mean difference between the largest and smallest values in a set of data, used as a measure of statistical dispersion.

3-sigma Control Limits

Statistical boundaries set at three standard deviations from the mean in a control chart, used to determine the variability of a process and identify potential outliers or trends.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Sampling Distribution

Sampling distribution is a statistical term describing the distribution of sample means or proportions over repeated sampling from the same population.