While some researchers indicate that certain conditions, like poverty, stress and certain high-risk environments facilitates violence in black communities; others suggest that the reluctance of social agents to intervene with the appropriate medical

care leads to increased homicides in the black community.


Indicate whether the statement is true or false


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

1. Definitions of deviance are relative to the time, place, and person(s) making the evaluation. 2. All societies have cultural values. 3. In decades past, societies possessed cultural values that were practices and beliefs intended to benefit a group of people. Cultural values do not hold the same level of importance today. 4. Folkways refer to serious customs that involve moral judgments as well as sanctions. 5. Folkways refer to usages, traditions, customs, or niceties that are preferred but are not subject to serious sanctions, such as manners.

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How can a defendant challenge a conviction?

What will be an ideal response?

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The earliest example of organized crime is_____, in which pirates roamed the high seas and plundered ship

a. smuggling b. snatching c. piracy d. chiseling

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The interventions of the Metropolitan Nashville Public School District focus on building social and emotional skills to build community and on ______.

A. allowing students to learn from their mistakes B. eliminating problem behavior before it becomes a discipline problem C. peer advising at-risk youths to stay away from problem behaviors D. transferring responsibility for discipline to the juvenile justice system

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