According to Robert Merton, when adolescents accept the cultural goal but reject the institutional means of attaining it, they may pursue other illegitimate paths in a stage of adaptation called ________

A) conformity B) innovation C) ritualism D) retreatism


A

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According to Clemmer, _____ is the process by which prisoners adapt to the prison world

a. Privatization c. Prisonization b. Socialization d. Identification

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_____ ___ _______ is the amount of area that is relatively in focus in the foreground and background of an in-focus object

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Which is a category within short-term problems?

a. Repeat incidents b. Serious incidents c. Incidents d. Problem locations

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Police officers are often concerned with ___________, while prosecutors are concerned with ________

a. factual guilt, legal guilt b. assumed guilt, real guilt c. practical guilt, assessed guilt d. legal guilt, evidential guilt

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