The Civil Rights Movement Contributed to the Field of Victimology

question 23

Multiple Choice

The civil rights movement contributed to the field of victimology by highlighting the _____________.

• A) Equal treatment of all races within the criminal justice system.
• B) Discrimination and unequal treatment suffered by African American crime victims and offenders.
• C) Increased rates of victimization and offending among Asian Americans.
• D) Discrimination and unequal treatment suffered by Caucasian crime victims and offenders.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A confidence interval is a range of values, derived from the sample data, that is believed to contain the true population parameter with a certain level of confidence.

Sample Sizes

The number of observations or data points from the population used to make estimations about the population.

Critical Value Z

A threshold value on the standard normal distribution used in hypothesis testing to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test. It is used to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.