Victim impact statements are used ________

A) before the sentencing of convicted offenders
B) only with the defendant's agreement
C) by prison officials during the classification of prisoners
D) by the police during their investigation


A

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Which of the following is not an unethical manipulation technique that may be used by the media?

a. Using persuasive interviewing techniques to influence others to disclose material they would normally not disclose. b. When a journalist makes an attempt in hard news to persuade using emotional rhetoric rather than fact. c. When a journalist relies on an unsubstantiated argument without noting its weaknesses to produce a desired conclusion. d. Any intentional and successful influence of a person by non-coercively altering the actual choices available to the person or by non-persuasively altering the other’s perceptions of those choices.

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Research on late-onset and early-onset offenders shows that

a) early onset has high likelihood of arrest into adulthood. b) late onset has high likelihood of arrest into adulthood. c) both late and early starters have the same likelihood of arrest. d) late onset girls have high likelihood of arrest into adulthood.

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The chief disadvantage to mounted horse patrol is the maintenance cost

a. True b. False

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Theoretical schemes:

a. do not involve hypotheses or propositions. b. are designed to explain relationships between variables. c. are not designed to predict relationships between variables. d. All of the above.

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