A defendant who was found guilty of murder and complains that his defense attorney did not check out the defendant’s alibi or interview witnesses could potentially claim ______.

A. ineffective counsel
B. exceptional counsel
C. appointed counsel
D. incompetent counsel


A. ineffective counsel

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

1. The major religious white collar crimes include fraud, child molestation, and collusion. 2. One survey of Catholic dioceses found that 85% reported embezzlement cases. 3. Higher level employees are best positioned to steal from a company on a large scale. 4. Most of the research on employee theft has focused on ordinary workers. 5. The text characterizes employee crime as the most costly of all forms of white collar crime.

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Identify four of the indicators that the Secret Service mentioned in a 2002 report about school shooters.

What will be an ideal response?

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In order to determine the relationship between weather and crime, a researcher measures and records the temperature. Temperature is an example of which level of measurement?

a. Nominal b. Ordinal c. Interval d. Ratio

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