Which of the following would NOT be considered a felony crime against a person?
a. Threatening someone with a weapon
b. Cutting the brakes on a vehicle
c. Burning down a house while people are inside sleeping
d. Setting fire to your vehicle for insurance money
D
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The variation found among raw scores in a particular group is referred to as:
a. between group variation. b. within group variation. c. total variation. d. none of the above
Which of the following would be an example of secondary deviance?
a. An offense occurs in the neighborhood, and police fail to identify a suspect, thus encouraging the perpetrator to reoffend. b. A town lacks important community efforts such as after school activities which lead youths to engage in crime. c. An offense occurs in the neighborhood, and a youth is suspected. He becomes angry and resentful and "acts out". d. A town passes a law such as truancy and begins to arrest many juveniles for what is a new crime.
Which of the following facts about familial influences is not true?
a. The rise in violent crime parallels the rise in families abandoned by fathers b. The type of aggression and hostility demonstrated by a future criminal is often foreshadowed in unusual aggressiveness as early as age five or six c. High-crime neighborhoods are characterized by high concentrations of families abandoned by mothers d. The future criminal tends to be an individual rejected by other children as early as the first grade