When women are treated less harshly than male suspects by the police and the criminal justice system given traditional gender expectations and notions of them being the "weaker sex", we are defining:

a. sexism c. stereotyping
b. chivalry hypothesis d. sexual bias


B

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Good-time provisions were a dominant theme at:

A) Elmira Reformatory. B) Alcatraz. C) Atlanta Prison for Women. D) the Walnut Street Jail.

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To constitute assault by contact, the offender must engage in physical contact with another and know that the other person will find the contact ________ or ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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It is more common to have female membership in predominately male gangs than to have single-sex, female-only gangs

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The scientific criteria for causality include ____

a. a correlation between the cause and the effect b. the effect preceding the cause in time c. the effect being caused by some third variable d. a cause that is not probabilistic

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