Police in Ferguson, Missouri, used tear gas and rubber bullets to force back protesters following the killing of an unarmed African American teenager, Michael Brown, in 2014. This is an example of what kind of policing?
a. broken windows policing
b. militarized policing
c. hot-spot policing
d. CompStat policing
Answer: B
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a. Part II offense b. victimless crime c. white-collar crime d. property crime
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a. only 10 percent of men think that one parent should stay at home while the other is working b. both men and women say it is not fair for men to be the sole decision maker in the household. c. women no longer believe they will be discriminated against men in employment. d. men and women both agree that gender discrimination should be illegal.
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a. the floor wear index. b. an erosion measure. c. an accretion measure. d. a reliable variable. e. the ecological fallacy.
The influence of group pressure on individual behavior was the focus of Asch's experiment
a. true b. false