Rosemary Sarri claimed that the attitudes and ideologies of juvenile justice practitioners administering the law might lead officials to give females longer sentences than males. Under what guise are such practitioners operating?

A) punishing the parents of female juveniles
B) protecting family members from violent female siblings
C) protecting the female juveniles
D) narrowing the gap between lower-class and middle-class delinquency rates


C

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