Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The scientific method is a way of looking at the world; a general emotional picture of “how things should be.”
2. Rather than becoming analytic in method, social science became primarily experimental.
3. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field.
4. The first fully randomized controlled trial in American criminology appears to have been the Harvard-Bentham experiment.
5. Criminality is an identifiable trait that some people possess, and others do not.


1.false
2.false
3.true
4.false
5.false

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