Both the UCR and NCVS indicate that crime in the United States has been decreasing since 1995.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

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A(n) ______ cause is an outside factor that causes the death or injury rather than the cause in fact.

a. proximate b. independent c. factual d. intervening

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According to life course theory, which of the following is NOT a factor?

a. strong social bonds to family and school b. stability through life in likelihood of engaging in deviancy c. significant events in life that can change trajectory d. a lack of transitions in life

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The fear of opium smoking by 19th century American users combined with wild stories of young innocent women being enslaved by opium in Chinese opium “dens” was not an important driving force for the first local and state laws against opium use during that time. 2. Over the past 50 years, the development of antipsychotic drugs enabled many people with psychotic disorders to function in the community, live with their families, and be gainfully employed. 3. The implementation of the Harrison Act in 1914 and subsequently a similar law in 1937 concerning marijuana led to an increasing role of the criminal justice system in drug policy. 4. There is an increased likelihood that illegal drug users will become involved in the criminal justice system because they are more likely to get arrested due to the link between criminal behavior and drug use. 5. The spread of mandatory sentencing laws has little to do with the explosive growth in the nation's prison populations.

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Which Supreme Court case based their ruling on the belief that the primary roles of women in society were to act as wife and mother?

A. Hernandez v. Texas B. Examining Board v. Flores de Otero C. Bradwell v. State of Illinois D. Arizona v. United States

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