The Standard Often Used by Courts to Determine Liability of Corrections

question 7

True/False

The standard often used by courts to determine liability of corrections personnel is whether an act or failure to act created an unusual risk to an inmate.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or spread of a set of data points relative to its mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that indicates the dispersion or variability of a set of data points in relation to their mean.

Variability

The extent to which data points in a data set or distribution differ from each other and from the central value (mean or median).

Mean

The statistical measure that divides the sum of all values in a data set by the number of values, commonly known as the average.