Because of the seriousness and number of reports of child abuse and neglect, legislatures in all 50 states have enacted child abuse ______ laws.

A. prosecution
B. protection
C. reporting
D. incarceration


C. reporting

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Classical theory in criminology formally began in what year?

a. 1764 b. 1778 c. 1791 d. 1800

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__________ laws were a sixteenth-century English set of laws by which vagrants and abandoned and neglected children were bound to masters as indentured servants

A) ?Chancery B) ?Child-saver C) ?Poor D) ?Vagrant E) ?Destitute

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Police employee groups started forming as early as the Civil War as fraternal organizations. 2. Requiring police officers to pay for their uniforms was one reason for the Boston police strike 3. Early fraternal organizations primarily were primarily concerned with more vacation time. 4. The two major police associations in the United States are the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and the International Brotherhood of Police Officers. 5. Once unions are recognized in a jurisdiction, the relationship between the department and the governmental entity is codified in a contract or memorandum of understanding.

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What are the elements of negligent retention?

What will be an ideal response?

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