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 field statement analysis is:
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.
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.
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.
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