Tom DeLay was forced out of politics because of his involvement in a bribery scandal involving Washington, D.C., lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham resigned from Congress after confessing to accepting $2.4 million in bribes. Former Illinois Governor George Ryan was convicted of steering government contracts to people willing to give him kickbacks and bribes. These

three men committed the white-collar crime of:

A) ?restraint of trade.
B) ?influence peddling.
C) ?professional chiseling.
D) ?embezzlement.


B

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a. a concept b. an independent variable c. a dependent variable d. an association e. an experimental variable

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Gil suggested that physical child abuse results from the three variables ____________, ____ and ____________,

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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_____________________ refers to lacking in thought or deliberation in decision making

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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In 2006, the issue of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) was:

a. reflected in data comparing male and female juvenile offenders b. reflected in data comparing 13 year old and 18 year old males c. a discrepancy between black youth arrests (51%) relative to their representation of the general population (17%) d. a discrepancy between Latino youth arrests (28%) relative to their representation of the general population (8%)

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