The race of a criminal offender is associated with the frequency with which capital punishment is administered. In this example, capital punishment would be considered the
A. independent variable.
B. hypothesis.
C. index.
D. dependent variable.
Answer: D
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incorporated into their personal identity? What will be an ideal response?
Understanding race and ethnicity as social constructions is a significant contribution of _____
a. functionalism b. conflict theory c. symbolic interaction theory d. social exchange theory
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