Shover, Coffey, and Hobbs's study of telemarketers convicted of federal crimes found that:

a. few had ever attended college.
b. as adolescents many had been more interested in money than their siblings.
c. most had abandoned lucrative and promising careers for telemarketing fraud.
d. most grew up in lower- or working-class families.


Answer: b

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