Identify which is true regarding risk factors for criminality.

A. An individual’s risk factors tend to remain stable over time.
B. Risk factors tend to cluster together, so that a person with one risk factor is likely to have others.
C. Risk factors are evenly distributed across the population.
D. Risk factors are those factors that decrease the probability of offending.


B. Risk factors tend to cluster together, so that a person with one risk factor is likely to have others.

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