Two recent propositions (Props 36 and 47) may help reduce the state's prison population by ______.
A. closing many jails that need substantial repairs
B. transferring inmates to out-of-state prisons and private prisons
C. granting early parole to anyone convicted before 1992
D. imposing a life sentence on third-strike violent offenders only and reclassifying some drug crimes as misdemeanors
Answer: D
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a. improve the internal validity of the research design. b. insure the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in research. c. protect the welfare of human participants. d. insure that research proposals contain no risk to the participants.
Norms can spread through many ways, including all of the following except
a. through international organizations. b. from state to state. c. among transnational groups of government experts. d. through military coercion and war.
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A) Economic liberalists B) Realists C) Transformationalists D) Globalization skeptics
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