___________ is not a new sect within Islam but a movement whose puropse is to purify Islam of perceived heretical accretions. The Wahhabis base their doctrines on the teaching of the fourteenth-century scholar Ibn Taymiyyah and of the Hanbali School of Law, the strictest of the four recognized in the Sunni consensus.

A. Shia
B. Sunni
C. Wahabbiyyah
D. Muslim


Answer: C. Wahabbiyyah

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Lorena has been convicted of embezzlement. At her criminal hearing, she is sentenced to home confinement. She has to wear an ankle device that limits her movement to a two-mile radius around her home. If she leaves this radius, the ankle device will send a signal to the nearest police station and Lorena will be arrested and incarcerated. This scenario best exemplifies the use of _____ in home confinement.

A. wiretapping B. multichanneling C. electronic monitoring D. thermal imaging

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

1. The most permanent and irreversible effects of testosterone occur prenatally. 2. The stress hormone that has been investigated most in connection with criminality is serotonin. 3. Possession of the 10R allele of the DAT1 polymorphism is related to increased involvement in antisocial behaviors for adult males but is not related to number of sexual partners. 4. Research has consistently found a strong positive association between number of sex partners and adult criminal behavior. 5. Nonshared environment refers to unique environmental experiences that make children from the same family different.

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The property of the mean that causes all deviation scores based on the mean to sum to zero is referred to by social scientists as what?

A. median B. point of the mean C. median point D. midpoint of the magnitude

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