Kathleen Heide has contended that killing a parent is frequently an act of ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


desperation

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In bonded labor, workers may inherit their debt

a. True b. False

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When prisons were first designed, they were designed as this type of facility.

a. Minimum-security facility b. Medium-security facility c. Maximum-security facility d. Supermax-security facility

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General intent requires that the defendant act with a malevolent purpose

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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

1. Conflict theories focus on the ways that the benefits and burdens of our economic and class system influence our definitions of delinquency and work to either encourage or discourage delinquency. 2. Not all the critical theories share an interest in social power. 3. Spoiled identity refers to what happens when a person has been labeled as delinquent, criminal, or deviant, and the negative identity sticks, leaving him or her in a perpetual state of stigmatization. 4. Stigmatization can lead to a person adopting a master status. 5. A classical theorist is one who assumes that society is based on class conflict and that laws tend to reflect the interests of the powerful.

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