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21) The Safe Streets and Communities Act of 2012 introduced changes to the Criminal Code of Canada including increased penalties for sexual offences against children and for drug crimes, to name but a few of the changes. a. True b. False 22) One of the National Crime Prevention Strategy programs is the Youth Gang Prevention Fund. a. True b. False 23) The Conservative government of Stephen Harper has engaged in a slight shift away from the social-problems based approach to crime prevention to a more “get-tough” approach to crime and criminality. a. True b. False 24) The United States now imprisons more people per capita than any other country in the Western world. a. True b. False 25) Our American neighbours appear to have embraced the social responsibility perspective of crime prevention. a. True b. False 26) According to Bianchi ________ should be considered a “metascience,” or “a science of wider scope (than that of criminal law, jurisprudence, criminal justice, or corrections) whose terminology can be used to clarify the conceptions of its subdisciplines.” a. criminology b. Kriminalpolitik c. public policy d. social epidemiology e. social policy 27) The National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention is an example of a ________ strategy. a. nurturant b. retributive c. deterrence d. protection/avoidance e. social epidemiology 28) For Bianchi, the concept of ________ referred to the political handling of crime, or, as we might say today, criminology-based social policy. a. criminology b. Kriminalpolitik c. public policy d. social epidemiology e. social policy 29) New and tougher laws, quicker trial court processing, and faster imposition of sentences are all examples of ________. a. social epidemiology b. nurturant strategies c. protection/avoidance strategies d. deterrence strategies e. Kriminalpolitik 30) Analysts of public policy have observed that policies undergo five stages in their development. The first stage is ________. a. policy formation b. program implementation c. program evaluation and reassessment d. agenda setting or the prioritization of problems e. identification of the problem