What are some of the factors that lead to the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s?

What will be an ideal response?


Most of the looting took the form of extravagant salaries, bonuses, and perquisites that executives awarded themselves as their banks sank ever further into debt. Other methods involved selling land back and forth (“land flipping”) within a few days, until its paper value far exceeded its real value, and then finding “sucker” institutions to buy it at the inflated price, and loans made back and forth between employees of different banks with the knowledge that the loans would never be called in.

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When prisons were initially used to incapacitate offenders, they were viewed as a more humane alternative to the punishments in current use at the time

a. True b. False

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The __________ helps control sales of untaxed liquor and cigarettes

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Which case struck down the punishment of life without parole for juveniles?

a. Graham v. Florida b. Roper v. Simmons c. Miller v. Alabama d. Thompson v. Oklahoma

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Prior to the 1970s, why was it assumed that women did not commit serious crimes? a. Women were not physically strong enough

b. Women were assumed to be very dependent and nurturing. c. Women were not given the opportunities to commit serious crimes. d. Women were too intelligent.

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