When a juvenile has been negatively labeled and the negative label sticks, causing the juvenile to be treated differently by society, it is called:

a. Secondary deviance
b. Primary deviance
c. Stigmatization
d. Spoiled identity


d. Spoiled identity

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Time is of the essence in hostage negotiations

a. True b. False

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Public order crimes are those that

a. have been determined not to cause social harm b. cause some social harm, though there is debate surrounding whether it is sufficient to justify regulation by the criminal justice system c. cause a great deal of harm and physical injury in comparison to other categories of criminality d. are clearly “victimless”

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Measures of central tendency can actually be considerably misleading at times because ______

A. it is possible for two very different distributions to have similar means B. it is possible for two very different distributions to have similar standard deviations C. the variation ratio is not equal to the sum of the squared deviations of the distribution under analysis D. all of these

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Unlawful pressure brought to bear on a person, causing the person to perform an act that he or she would not otherwise perform is __________________

a. duress b. mistake c. necessity d. entrapment

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