Explain what structural factors are and what role they play in creating criminogenic environments

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Answer: Structural factors focuses on community characteristics such as the level of social integration (e.g., how well people know their neighbors), the quality of the living conditions of a neighborhood (e.g., are there many abandoned buildings), and the proportion of minorities. These areas, generally, have a high fear of crime.

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Physical child abuse includes

a. punching or beating b. leaving the child unattended for long periods of time c. biting or shaking d. both a and c

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An appellate court's written decision and explanation is called a(n) __________.

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According to Hans J. Eysenck's conditioning theory, individuals that score high on measures of ________ are aggressive, egocentric, and impulsive.

A. neuroticism B. extroversion C. psychoticism D. introversion

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Jeremy Bentham graduated from Queen’s College at Oxford at the age of ____

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