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| 1.Both Albert and Walter Miller argue that deviance is most likely to arise among… |
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| 2. In legal terms, a crime is composed of which two components? |
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| A. The act and criminal intent |
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| 3.Criminal statistics gathered by the federal Bureau of investigation reflect… |
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| D. Offenses known to the police |
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| 4. The likelihood a person will be arrested for a street crime rises sharply |
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| A.During the late teenage years |
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| 5.In terms of racial categories, most people arrested for a violent crime in the United States are… |
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| 6. The oldest justification for punishing an offender is… |
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| 7. According to Elliot Currie, factors that explain the high crime rate in the United States by world standards include... |
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| D. Our emphasis on individual economic success, which weakens the social fabric. |
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| 8. Biological factors, including genetics, explain most criminal behavior. |
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| 9. The United States is the only western, high-income nation that routinely imposes the death penalty on convicted offenders. |
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