The common law did not recognize rapes committed by men against their wives.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


Answer: True.

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A person testifying as a ballistic expert can testify that:

a. pattern of lands and groves indicates the bullet was fired from the defendant's gun. b. tests indicate the defendant fired the bullet that killed the victim. c. the ownership of the gun that was tested. d. a ballistic expert would be allowed to testify to all of these

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The psychosocial systems model stresses that abuse results from interactions external to the family

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

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There is a strong relationship between age and crime. Researchers have found that ______

a. most people will age out of crime b. crime peaks in a person's 20 and then fluctuates thereafter c. people are starting their criminal careers much later in life than in prior decades d. this relationship only exists in African-American males

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Jeremy Bentham, eighteenth-century English law reformer and social activist, sought to change criminal law so that it emphasized the punishment goal of _______, meaning that prevention, not vengeance, should be emphasized to change a person's behavioral patterns

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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