Serious mental disorders that cause individuals to be out of touch with reality and thus unable to cope with the demands of everyday living are called ________.

A. atavists
B. psychoses
C. anomies
D. recidivists


Answer: B

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The relationship between work release programs and recidivism has been highly researched

a. True b. False

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What is an early English police unit formed under the leadership of Henry Fielding, magistrate of the Bow Street region of London?

What will be an ideal response?

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The most obvious weakness of the Uniform Crime Report rests on what?

A. The fact that rural crime is too often relegated to lower ranking indices. B. The fact that only those crimes brought to the attention of the police are included in the database. C. The fact that the continued use of multistage cluster sampling prevents serious analysis at the individual case level. D. The fact that the vast majority of data collected and included in the UCR is relegated for use by specially designated federal agents only.

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