When a member of a crime organization uses the threat of violence to get someone to do something for the group, it is called ________.
A. loan sharking
B. a shakedown
C. criminal usury
D. bookmaking
Answer: B
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Which amendment refers to freedom of religion and speech and often requires police intervention to protect protesters or those protested against?
a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. 4th
The chain of custody is the witnessed, unbroken, written chronological history of who had the evidence when.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Judith and Peter Blau developed the concept of __________, the idea that anger and mistrust result from perceptions of inequality that lead lower-class people to feel deprived and embittered in comparison with those more affluent
a. inequality concentration c. cultural inequality b. collective deprivation d. relative deprivation
According to William Chambliss, the police and courts identify the behavior of some delinquents more so than the others because of the ____ in the juvenile justice system.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).