Barbara Consults a Criminologist to Identify the Reasons for Employee

question 33

Multiple Choice

Barbara consults a criminologist to identify the reasons for employee thefts.Which of the following is the most likely interpretation that the criminologist would present?

• A) People have financial-based pressures which motivate them to steal.
• B) People steal because the opportunity presents itself through lax controls.
• C) Favorable circumstances tempt people to commit crimes.
• D) People steal because they can rationalize whatever they're doing.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a data set differ from the mean of the data set.

Expected Value

The average value over many repetitions of an experiment, commonly utilized in the fields of probability and statistics.

Sample Proportion

The ratio of members in a sample with a particular attribute to the total number of members in the sample.

Binomial Probability

The likelihood of a given number of successes in a fixed number of trials, where each trial has exactly two possible outcomes.