This is said to be at play when delinquency spreads as youth copy the behavior of peers and siblings

What will be an ideal response?


The contagion effect

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The Federal Rules of Evidence are a code of law binding federal entities to ensure uniformity and consistency in judicial rulings, interpretations, and applications in the federal court system

There are eleven articles listed on page 34 of the textbook and they are further discussed in Appendix C. Pick one Article and write a summary of that Article and the rules that correlate with this Article. Be sure to include why this Article is important to the federal court system and provide one example of how this Article comes into play with the federal court.

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Both deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning are essential to criminologists. However, sometimes we cannot always make useful predictions for every social situation or research problem that we seek to investigate. We may find unexpected patterns in the data we collect. What is the term used to describe this? Define that term. Then provide some suggestions on the process a researcher could invoke in order to make sense of their unanticipated findings.

What will be an ideal response?

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Maturation as a threat to internal validity in experiments refers to:

a. some subjects are older than others b. as people grow and change, results can be impacted c. only subjects over the age of 21 are mature enough to be part of an experiment d. none of the above

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Courts in which most cases usually begin and in which questions of fact are examined are called:

a. trial courts b. county courts c. district courts d. appellate courts

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