The typical inmate in prison in the United States is male, from a minority group, is a drug addict or mentally ill, poor and probably had a difficult/abusive upbringing or comes from a dysfunctional family background.
<em>Male inmates</em> make up 90% of the total jail population, but the female jail population has grown at a faster pace then the male in the recent years. African Americans are the largest ethnic group in jails, followed by Whites, Hispanics and other races.
Over the half of jail inmates await court action on their current charges, the rest is serving their sentence.The percentage of inmates in private jails is small, about 2,3 % but nevertheless growing all the time.
Almost 10,000 inmates a year are under eighteen , 90% of them convicted.
Answer:
critical period
Explanation:
Critical period: In developmental biology & psychology, the term critical period is defined as the phenomenon that involves an individual's maturational stage in his or her life span in which the nervous system of the person is considered as very sensitive to a few specific environmental stimuli.
If an individual, doesn't receive required stimuli from the environment which is considered as necessary to develop specific functions then it would be difficult for the person to develop those functions later in life.
The critical period was first introduced by John Fiske during 1888.
In the question above, the given statement represents the critical period.
Answer:
True
Explanation:
Hirschi's social control theory is of the opinion that when an individual has strong ties to family, friends, school and other areas of the society, this reduces his inclination to deviant behavior. In this regard, it is therefore possible for everyone in the society to commit crimes. However, crime is avoided by those who maintain social bonds and family ties. Hence, once a ties are broken, the individual begins to commit crimes without any fear of consequence.
