Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Robert Merton believed there were five ways a person could adapt to anomie.
2. Sociologists Robert Park and Ernest Burgess mapped the city of Chicago into five concentric zones using social ecology.
3. Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay applied the concept of concentric zones to understand juvenile delinquency.
4. Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg identified nineteen stages of moral development.
5. Many adult offenders and juvenile delinquents exhibit traits of mental illnesses listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, or the DSM-V, published by the American Psychiatric Association.


1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True

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