Which statement is true of kleptomania?
A) It is highly prevalent among female shoplifters.
B) It is highly prevalent among male shoplifters.
C) It has not been strongly substantiated by the available research.
D) It is a disease specific to Caucasian females over age forty.
C
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A) admittance B) change-encounter C) continuance-metamorphosis D) pre-entry choice
Who is known as "the father of forensic toxicology" and why?
What will be an ideal response?
How does criminologist, Gerber, explain what is perceived by some to be unusually high sentences for white-collar offenders?
a. White-collar offenders are sentenced according to federal guidelines b. Very few white-collar offenders ever make it through the criminal justice process and when they do it is because there is substantial evidence against them, which leads to harsher sentences c. There are only a small proportion of offenders with extremely large sentences, but those offenders raise the average dramatically and give the perception that all white-collar offenders have particularly long sentences d. All of the above
By locating and analyzing the sample of males collected by the Gluecks, what did Laub and Sampson conclude with regard to desistance?
a. Desistance from delinquency is the norm. b. Building social capital has little to do with desistance. c. The process of desistance is merely a matter of getting older. d. Marriage and a career impacted desistance negatively.