How does the definition of rape impact its reporting to law enforcement agencies and its overall rate of occurrence in statistical terms?

What will be an ideal response?


Generally speaking, most sex crimes, rape in particular, are thought to be grossly underreported by victims. In fact, an estimated 50 percent of all sexual assaults are believed to go unreportedto authorities.

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_____________ sanctions provide severe sentences for certain types of crimes, such as hate-based or terrorist crimes

Fill in the blanks with correct word

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Which chart would be most appropriate to show robberies committed by a suspect to support a drug habit that may occur closer together in time than other robberies?

a. Chart showing cross-tabulation b. Chart displaying time of day and day of week c. Chart displaying intervals between events d. Tempogram

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At around midday on Saturday September 21, 2013, __ _______ terrorists attacked the Westgate Shopping Mall in an upscale Nairobi neighborhood often frequent by expatriates, tourists, and westerners. The attack was a commando-style attack on unsuspecting shoppers enjoying a day out at the exclusive shopping center

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Liederbach suggests that although Medicaid's challenge to the medical establishment extended health benefits to the nation's poor, paradoxically, it

a. created new opportunities and motivations for physicians to commit medical offenses. b. had neither a positive nor a negative effect on the health of the poor. c. resulted in a declining standard of health among the very segment of the population it was designed to help. d. became extremely too costly and prohibitive to sustain.

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