Petersilia, Greenwood, and Lavin's study of inmates who were serving sentences for armed robbery concluded that:
a. most of the robbers planned their crimes in great detail.
b. the robbers had been incarcerated an average of half of their criminal careers.
c. the robbers were more likely to have been arrested for any given crime as a juvenile than as a adult.
d. fulfilling financial needs became relatively less important as a motive for the robbers' crimes as they got older.
Answer: b
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