A police officer sees two people walking in a quiet, residential neighborhood at 3 a.m. Which of the following terms describes how the police officer may view the pair?

a. symbolic assailants
b. potential fatalities
c. organizational assumptions
d. symbolic offenders


a. symbolic assailants

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a. the belief that criminals were somewhat childlike or unbalanced, lacking the self-discipline to control their passions by reason b. the belief that criminal law should be reformed so that it would emphasize deterrence and prevention c. the belief that capital punishment should be used even on minor offenses to deter others and to weed out “bad seeds” d. the belief that the goal of corrections was not to avenge an illegal act, but to prevent commission of such an act in the first place

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a. intoxicating b. depressing c. stimulating d. lasting

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