Net Widening Occurs When the Criminal Justice System

question 48

Multiple Choice

Net widening occurs when the criminal justice system:

• A) increases its control over a greater number of individuals.
• B) decreases its control over a lesser number of individuals.
• C) releases more individuals without punishment.
• D) releases inmates from prison.
• E) increases length of incarceration for inmates.

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Definitions:

Independent

Refers to a variable in an experiment or study that is purposely manipulated or changed to observe its effect on other variables.

Successful Operations

Activities or series of activities within a process which achieve the intended goals or objectives efficiently and effectively.

Poisson Approximation

A statistical technique used to approximate the probabilities of events with a very low probability over a large number of trials.

Binomial Random Variable

A type of random variable that takes the number of successes in a fixed number of trials of a binomial experiment, where each trial results in a success or failure, with the probability of success being the same for all trials.