Youths who loiter on street corners are potential candidates for being stopped and questioned by police officers. In these instances, police action is based upon:
a. probable cause, since loitering usually precedes criminal activity.
b. reasonable suspicion, since police officers know when crimes involving juveniles are about to happen.
c. clear and convincing evidence, since loitering is a status offense. d. situationally-based discretion.
d
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Societies characterized by organic solidarity tend to be old-fashioned and less technologically advanced than those characterized by mechanical solidarity. 2. Merton argued that people were under about the same amount of pressure to commit crime regardless of their social standing. 3. Cohen viewed middle-class male delinquency as a reaction to being raised primarily by women. 4. Differential opportunity suggests that there were four types of gangs: criminal, conflict, ritualistic, and retreatist. 5. Akers’s social learning theory is an extension of Merton’s strain theory.
According to Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quételet and French lawyer André-Michel Guerry, ________ was responsible for criminal behavior.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The individual pieces of information gathered, analyzed, and used to answer the research question are known as ______.
a. attributes b. variables c. measures d. data