This theory credits the propensity to commit crime to intimate peer groups which encourage favourable definitions to crime.

a. social disorganization theory
b. radical criminological theory
c. differential association theory
d. general strain theory


c. differential association theory

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The Second Chance Act was passed and reauthorized in order to help meet the goal of

a. assisting offenders in stabilizing their lives so they may eventually become fully independent. b. providing more opportunities for victims to receive compensation for harm done to them. c. securing convictions against multiple offenders. d. identifying relapsed drug offenders and returning them to prison.

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Why are adolescent females and women victims of "multiple marginality"?

A) because gender, class, and race have placed women at the economic periphery of society B) because they are prone to commit multiple offenses C) because females are less likely than males to be involved in most crimes D) because the gender gap is more persistent for some offenses than for others

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Britain and _______ conspire to redraw the geography of the ______ ______ from Persia to the Mediterranean and out of the Levantine region they would create new countries, namely Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and the Palestine Mandate

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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