Based on the Empirical Evidence, Which of the Following Factors

question 1

Multiple Choice

Based on the empirical evidence, which of the following factors has been consistently shown to influence judicial decisions to waive juveniles to criminal court?

• A) The juvenile's race.
• B) The juvenile's sex.
• C) The juvenile's social class.
• D) The type of offense the juvenile was alleged to have committed.

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Definitions:

Skewed Negatively

A description of a distribution of data where the majority of values are concentrated on the right of the mean, leading to a longer tail on the left side.

Distribution

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area.

Values

Quantitative or qualitative measurements, attributes, or properties of variables or items.

Class Intervals

Ranges of values within which data points are grouped for frequency distribution purposes.