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

1. If the police decide not to take into custody or arrest a particular juvenile, none of the rest of the official legal machinery can go into operation.
2. Police officers are never inconsistent in the decision-making process because of frequent ambiguity with respect to whether any formal rule of law applies in a specific case as well as a variety of other factors.
3. In the case of a minor offense, the police will often intervene on behalf of the juvenile to persuade the complainant not to take official action.
4. Researchers are generally in agreement concerning the role of race in police-juvenile encounters.
5. If unofficial suggestions are not acceptable to the offenders involved, threatening official action largely removes any element of voluntarism and is considered coercive.


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE

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