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Question 1.
The criminal justice system can eliminate crime.

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Question 2.
Societal protection is rendering an offender incapable of further offenses temporarily through imprisonment or permanently by execution.

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Question 3.
Community based corrections include probation and parole.

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Question 4.
Plea bargaining is a legal act of moral vengeance by which society makes the offender suffer as much as the suffering caused by the crime.

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Question 5.
Due process means that anyone charged with a crime must receive (a) fair notice of the proceedings, (b) a hearing on the charges conducted according to law and with the ability to present a defense, and (c) a judge or jury that weighs evidence in an impartial way.

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Question 6.
Different countries have different strategies for dealing with crime.

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Question 7.
Native Americans figure in only 1.4 percent of all arrests in the United States.

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Question 8.
Overall the rates of serious violent and property crimes are lower in the United States than in Europe.

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Question 9.
In order to understand deviance fully, we must know how a society defines deviant, who is branded as deviant, and what people decide to do about deviance.

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Question 10.
Strain theory has been criticized because it explains some kinds of deviance (for example, stealing) better than others (for example, crimes of passion).

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Question 11.
Primary deviance marks the start of what Erving Goffman called a deviant career.

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Question 12.
Social welfare and criminal justice systems blame individuals for social problems.

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