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

1. The age-crime curve cannot be explained by conflict theory.
2. According to Quetelet, young, unemployed, and poor individuals are more likely to commit crime.
3. In mechanical societies, males completed the hunting while females gathered.
4. Guerry concluded from examining the first modern crime statistics that violent crime was higher in poor areas.
5. Comte’s A System of Positive Polity encouraged the use of observational methods to observe and measure societal factors.


1 False.
2. True
3. True
4. True
5 True

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