In which state did the governor release 156 inmates from death row in 2003 because of fears that some of them had been wrongfully convicted?

A. Connecticut
B. Hawaii
C. Illinois
D. Maryland


C. Illinois

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Albert is a teenager who lives in a close-knit rural community of 3,000 people where everyone knows one another. He resides in a house with his parents and grandparents. A couple of kids from his school have talked about spray painting the back of the grocery store, but Albert knows the owner of the store and what a hardship it would be for the owner to clean up the mess. Albert talks the kids out of the plan in favor of meeting some friends to play basketball in the park. Albert's actions are best explained by which theory?

A. critical theory B. social structure theory C. labeling theory D. control theory

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Pretrial publicity is feared by judges because of the potential for:

A) juror bias. B) juror misconduct. C) bribery. D) All of the above.

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Reports circulated in the 1960s indicating increasingly widespread recreational abuse of heroin by what U.S. population?

A. hippies B. congressmen C. Vietnam soldiers and veterans D. high school students

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The ___ stigmatizing the societal responses to early youth and gang delinquency, the more likely that ____ behavior will be encouraged in the long run among the youth.

a. less, negative and antisocial b. more, negative and antisocial c. more, positive and prosocial d. less, positive and prosocial

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