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81. A single exposure to firearm violence doubles the chance that a young person will later engage in violent behavior.

71. Travis Hirschi states that the social bonds a person maintains with society are divided into four main elements. Which of the following is not one of these elements?

39. Subcultural values are handed down from one generation to the next in a process called ______.

15. The study of the victim’s role in criminal events is called ________.

100. The most famous set of written laws of the ancient world was a code based on punishment via physical retaliation, “an eye for an eye,” but the severity of punishment was dependent on one’s class standing. This code was known as the ______.

61. Which of the following is a pathway to a criminal career that begins with minor aggression and eventually escalates to violent crime?

99. The American legal system is a direct descendent of _____.

84. Criminologist Cathy Widom hypothesized that a childhood history of physical abuse predisposes the survivor to becoming violent themselves in later years. Her hypothesis commonly is called ___________.

93. Using humanistic, nonpunitive strategies to right wrongs and restore social harmony is called ________.

38. __________ reflects the view that multiple sources of strain interact with an individual’s emotional traits and responses to criminality.