In their two Philadelphia cohort studies, Marvin Wolfgang and his colleagues found that:

a. there were no differences between boys and girls in police contacts.
b. there were no differences between whites and blacks in police contacts.
c. a small percentage of boys accounted for the majority of all police contacts.
d. all boys had approximately the same number of police contacts.


Answer: c

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