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

1. Status frustration suggests that socioeconomic inequality has a direct effect on community crime rates.
2. Today, classic strain theory is used to examine differences in crime rates and inequality.
3. Mestrovic and Lorenzo (2008) argue that there were high levels of social disorganization or anomie at Abu Ghraib and within the social structures of all of the entities and individuals who interacted with and had responsibility for the prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
4. Anomie and strain theories are only applicable to U.S. societal structures.


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

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