Writing about the plague at the end of the 17th century, ______ (1977) describes how certain areas of a town were cordoned off and kept under continuous vigil with guards inspecting every part of the town to ensure that no-one escaped to spread the disease further.

a. Jermy Bentham
b. Michel Foucault
c. Cesare Lombroso
d. Cesare Beccaria


b. Michel Foucault

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Relative deprivation is:

a. the frustration that people feel when they see their relatives doing better economically than they are doing. b. the discrepancy between what people believe they are entitled to and what they actually have or believe they can attain. c. the variation in standards of living among the nations of the world. d. the belief that the rate of poverty cannot be reduced.

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A sentence fragment is a group of words that expresses

a complete thought. b. does not express a complete thought. c. rhymes. d. tells a dirty story.

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All of the following describe the expansion of the prison population EXCEPT

a. the United States will release less than 40% of those incarcerated due to "3 strikes" life sentences, amounting to about 200,000 persons annually. b. the United States prison population is now about 2 million persons. c. the United States currently has the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the world. d. the incarceration rate for young black men is about 10 times that of young white men.

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