A __________________ is usually a lawyer who is appointed by the court to take care of youths who need help, especially in neglect, dependency, and abuse cases, but also occasionally in delinquency cases.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Answer: Guardian ad litem

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_____ refers to a situation where, by law, some people must remain on probation or parole for years, but they are not actively reporting in person.

A. Banked probation B. Immunity C. Restorative justice D. Unsupervised supervision

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In order to determine the relationship between weather and crime, a researcher measures and records the temperature. Temperature is an example of which level of measurement?

a. Nominal b. Ordinal c. Interval d. Ratio

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If it can be proven that Mark landed the couch on the victim because of his race, then a _____ charge may also be added against Mark

a. mayhem b. hate crime c. malicious disfigurement d. domestic violence

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One important contemporary change in organized crime is

a. the degree of violence being used. b. the use of the Internet to support criminal activities. c. the declining involvement in drug trafficking. d. the interweaving of ethnic groups into the traditional structure.

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