Edwin Sutherland stated that white-collar crime ________

a. almost always leads to a criminal conviction.
b. provokes a strong response from the community.
c. is usually resolved in a civil rather than a criminal court.
d. rarely involves serious harm to the public as a whole.


Answer: c

Sociology

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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__________ includes the corporations and agencies with an economic stake in building and supplying correctional facilities and in providing services

a. Medicalization b. The prison-industrial complex c. Bureaucracy d. Institututionalization

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Operationalization is not necessary in evaluation research

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The word that Max Weber used to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions, thoughts, beliefs, understandings, and attitudes was

A. verstehen. B. Gemeinschaft. C. anomie. D. Gesellschaft.

Sociology