The U.S. imprisons a higher percentage of the population than any other advanced industrialized nation. Which of the following is one reason for the high incarceration rate?
A. flexible sentencing
B. the failure of informal social control
C. mandatory drug treatment
D. three strikes laws
Ans: D
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A. a functionalist approach proposing that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations. B. a far-reaching process by which peripheral nations move from having traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies. C. an approach contending that as developing countries make economic advances, they remain weak and subservient to core nations. D. applying to the interactionist perspective.
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a. very large b. non-probability c. representative d. stratified
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a. an objective. b. a goal. c. a vision statement. d. an assumption.