What is onset? What is continuation? And what is desistance?

What will be an ideal response?


Onset—a beginning or start into deviancy, continuation refers to continued participation in deviant life styles and desistance is when deviancy stops and the individual exits deviant lifestyles

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a. FEMA Act b. USA PATRIOT Act c. National Flood Insurance Act d. Disaster Relief Act

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__________ are most likely to see conventional criminals as victims of capitalist society rather than as offenders against that society

a. Radicals b. Conservatives c. Liberals

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The United States passed the Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1996 to criminalize female circumcision by:

a. 6 months b. 1 year c. 5 years d. 10 years

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The crime of receiving stolen property targets professional fences and ordinary people who know, or should know, they're buying stolen things

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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