Discuss several characteristics of violent female offenders.

What will be an ideal response?


Female offenders are most likely to kill an acquaintance (32%), spouse (28%), or boyfriend/girlfriend (14%). Stranger-victims are the smallest category (7%). About a quarter of male victims are strangers. These partner-related crimes are committed generally by women at home, acting alone, provoked or responding to victim-initiated attacks. They are more likely to use knives and to have had been drinking than when men kill their partners. Both women and men are more likely to kill men.

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The courts have traditionally been instruments of social change

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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__________ terrorists are revolutionaries who seek to overthrow all established forms of government

a. Right-wing b. Anarchist c. Nationalist d. Left-wing

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Quota sampling is ___________________

a. a nonrandom sample in which the researcher begins with one case, and then, based on information about interrelationships from that case, identifies other cases, and repeats the process again and again b. a sample in which the sampling elements are selected using something other than a mathematically random process c. a nonrandom sample in which the researcher first identifies general categories into which cases or people will be selected, and then he or she selects cases to reach a predetermined number of cases in each category d. a nonrandom sample in which the researcher selects anyone he or she happens to come across e. a nonrandom sample in which the researcher uses a wide range of methods to locate all possible cases of a highly specific and difficult-to-reach population

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For the purpose of search and seizure experts recommend that computer files be treated:

a. Like individual locked containers b. Similar to the automobile exception c. With a lesser expectation of privacy d. With a higher expectation of privacy

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