Billy N. Evitable is a 18-year-old young man who grew up lis…
Billy N. Evitable is a 18-year-old young man who grew up listening, watching and experiencing violence through music, television and abusive and alcoholic parents. Billy recently killed a neighbor’s child while re-enacting a scene from a violent movie that he had watched the night before. His friends watched and egged him on as he began to perpetrate the act. Assume that you were Billy’s attorney. An expert witness from which of the following theoretical perspectives would probably be most prepared to identify the violent movie as a mitigating (explanatory) factor to account for his criminal act?
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Provide an appropriate response.A severe drought affected several western states for 3 years. A Christmas tree farmer is worried about the drought’s effect on the size of his trees. To decide whether the growth of the trees has been retarded, the farmer decides to take a sample of the heights of 25 trees and obtains the following results (recorded in inches):60, 57, 62, 69, 46, 54, 64, 60, 59, 58, 75, 51, 49, 67, 65, 44, 58, 55, 48, 62, 63, 73, 52, 55, 50The tree farmer feels the normal height of a tree that was unaffected by the drought would be 65 inches. Find the z-score for a tree that is 65 inches tall.
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Provide an appropriate response.The grades are given for a student for a particular term. Find the grade point average. The point values of grades are given below. A : 4, B : 3, C : 2, D : 1, F : 0 Grade Credit Hours C 4 A 1 F 3 B 2 A 4
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