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

1.The social insurance concept was designed to prevent poverty resulting from individual misfortune—gambling, addiction, and divorce.
2.Reformers are likely to focus on the economic deprivations as the fundamental cause of the social pathologies that afflict the poor.
3.In 1965 Congress amended Social Security to add Medicare—comprehensive health benefits for persons over 55.
4.Social insurance and public assistance is the same thing.
5.The idea of public assistance is to alleviate, or simply to provide a minimal level of subsistence to certain categories of needy persons.


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

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According to the text, which of the following does not contribute to the relatively low level of attention paid to white collar crime by local prosecutors?

a. The fact that they do not typically regard such crime as especially serious b. The fact that such cases require a very large expenditure of time and resources c. The rationalizion that such cases are primarily the responsibility of various stateor federal agencies d. A concern about antagonizing local consumers and workers

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Review of field reports, arrest sheets, dispatch logs and other crime information to assist patrol efforts is called ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The highest value in a distribution minus the lowest value in the distribution will provide the central tendency.

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

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After surveying a year's worth of dispatch data from the Wilmington (Delaware) Police Department, researchers Jack Greene and Carl Klockars found that officers spent how much of their time enforcing the law or dealing with crimes?

a. one-fourth b. half c. two-thirds d. three-fourths

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