By definition, domestic violence is

a. a civil violation outside a peace officer's jurisdiction.
b. an oral disagreement not involving threats between family members.
c. abuse committed against a family member that results in threats or bodily injury.
d. a non-arrest situation requiring family counseling.


Ans: c. abuse committed against a family member that results in threats or bodily injury.

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a. a shortened version of statement analysis. c. Both a and b are correct. b. an approach that uses only the lack of conviction and extraneous information standards. d. Neither a nor b is correct.

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91. If we are making a one tailed test at the .01 level of significance, and observe a mean = 99, with an hypothesized mean of 90 or smaller, and we require a critical value of t = 2.38, this means that we:

a. will fail to reject the null hypothesis. b. will support the research hypothesis. c. will reject the null hypothesis. d. will find significance.

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Defendants who are rearrested for a felony while out on bail are referred to as:

A) ?preventive detainees. B) ?avertable recidivists. C) ?obviate detainees. D) ?precluded recidivists. E) ?double timers.

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Merton (1968) notes that the French term "anomie," which translates literally as "normlessness," had existed since at least the sixteenth century but was brought into modern usage by ( ) in 1893 with the book Division of Labor.

a. Emile Durkheim b. Marcus Felson c. Clifford Shaw d. Cesare Lombroso

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