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The data on capital punishment show that people from disadvantaged categories, such as racial minorities, the poor, and the illiterate, are disproportionately given the death penalty and disproportionately killed by the state.
 
  a. true
  b. false

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Edward Banfield argues that all theories that focus on the characteristics of the individual in explaining deviance are guilty of blaming the victim.
 
  a. true
  b. false



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Answer to Question 1

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