Margot, a college senior who majors in criminology, fancies herself as skilled in predicting

dangerousness when she reads case histories of teenage thieves.

Which piece of information
would be most instrumental in enhancing Margot's accuracy in predicting violence?
a. victimized by sexual abuse as a child c. engaged in past violence
b. no father in the home d. degree of introversion


C

Psychology

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