The key to ______ lies in the note that many individuals tend to simultaneously learn to commit crime in one location and this results in crime rates becoming disproportionately high in such areas where criminal behavior is learned as a valued norm.

A. subcultural theory
B. social learning theory
C. routine activities theory
D. strain/anomie theory


A. subcultural theory

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a. Hunter v. Bryant b. Saucier v. Katz c. Tennessee v. Garner d. Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Agents

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a. True b. False

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Which retailer has changed their hiring policies so that an individual’s criminal history is not raised until the interview?

a. Target b. Walmart c. JCPenney d. Home Depot

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The belief that as the percentage of minorities increases in a population, so does the added attention and stress placed on this group by police presence, is known as _________________

a. Wendall Holmes theory b. racial threat hypothesis c. double marginality hypothesis d. minority profiling hypothesis

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