I believe it's B, correct me if I'm wrong.
They got them from the people of the united srares
Answer:
B. extortion.
Explanation:
In the context of law, extortion is defined as a criminal offence where an offender/criminal obtains something, particularly money or property, through force or violent threats.
If we look into the above scenario, the two criminals have committed a series of offences, however, they did not force nor threat the client to invest his money into their scheme. Therefore, they cannot be charged with extortion by the court.
Instead they would be charged with criminal conspiracy for scheming a fraud, money laundering for transfering the money into their family business to conceal income and deceit for deceiving the man with lies.
Answer: Patrick is at the "PRECONTEMPLATION STAGE OF CHANGE".
Explanation: Precontemplation stage of change is the stage where a person have no intention of changing their behavior for the foreseeable future. They don't see the behavior to be wrong and does not border if it is problematic to others.
For Patrick to see the advice of his family and friends as overreaction towards his gambling life, that means he has no intention to stop gambling.
They are five stages of change, which are; Precontemplation, contemplation- when you start seeing reasons to change and you are thinking about changing the behavior, preparation- when you have decided to change and get your self prepared, action- when you have taken the bold step of change and you have started acting the new way you wanted, maintenance- to maintain the change that have taken place to become your culture.