The increasingly popular view among criminologists of the period of positivism was that crime resulted from internal and/or external forces impinging on individuals, biasing behavior. This view is known as ______.

A. positivism
B. atavism
C. determinism
D. free-will


C. determinism

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According to Elijah Anderson, contemporary street code emphasizes the issue of __________

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Disorderly youth in public places constitute one of the least common problems most police agencies must handle, particularly in suburban and rural communities

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following best illustrates the Bertillon system of criminal identification?

A. having victims identify a suspect from a lineup of several similar people B. recruiting informants from the riffraff of the streets to zero in on criminals C. collecting blood samples from underneath a victim's fingernails D. matching the shape of the ears and skeletal size to a particular suspect

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The first major motion picture to feature hackers, released in 1983, was entitled _______________.

A. Hackers B. Technophiles C. War Games D. Swordfish

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