List two characteristics of sex offenders identified by Toch.
What will be an ideal response?
Most are rather harmless minor offenders; only about 20 percent use force on their victims; Untreated, convicted offenders tend to be recidivists in both sexual and nonsexual offenses, but in no greater proportions that nonsexual offenders; while few offenders are psychopaths, many are suffering severe neurosis, borderline psychosis, or brain impairment, but most do not fit legal definitions of mental illness; most are emotionally immature and sexually constricted and inhibited, although those involved in rape and incest are more likely to be overimpulsive and oversexed; convicted statutory rapists and those involved in bestiality and incest are more likely to exhibit subnormal intelligence; the majority of offenders are young, unmarried, and from poor educational and social-class backgrounds.
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Which of the following is NOT considered a mitigating circumstance in a death penalty case?
a. Killing to avoid arrest b. No significant prior criminal record c. Minor participant in the murder d. Youth at the time of the murder
There are only two methods by which to classify delinquency prevention programs—the public health approach and the developmental perspective
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Lineups must be done under conditions (such as lighting) that replicate what the witness saw at the crime scene
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