Lombroso's theory of criminal ___________________ reflects the idea that delinquents manifest physical anomalies that make them biologically and physiologically similar to our primitive ancestors, savage throwbacks to an earlier stage of human evolution

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atavism

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A collection of documents or artifacts that a researcher can use as data is called ___

What will be an ideal response?

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The requirement for a stop-and-frisk is that an officer has

A. consent. B. probable cause. C. a warrant. D. reasonable suspicion.

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John is driving his sports car at 110 miles an hour in a 45 mile per hour speed zone. The roadway is a windy and hilly rural two-lane road. The sports car tops a hill just as a farmer pulling a wagon with a tractor is crossing the road just beyond the crest of the hill. John is unable to avoid the tractor and crashes into it. The farmer is killed instantly as is a farmhand who is riding on the trailer. Under Texas law, the most serious offense John has committed is:

A) no offense because the deaths were an accident. B) capital murder because he killed two individuals in the same incident. C) manslaughter because operating the automobile at such a high speed under those road conditions constitutes reckless behavior. D) murder because at high speed an automobile is considered a deadly weapon.

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Early criminologists viewed the female offender as an aberration who engaged in crimes that usually had a _________________ connotation

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