Federally funded “justice reinvestment” initiatives were enacted to improve state crime policies to reduce mass incarceration. Why do scholars think that U.S. incarceration rates have been largely unaffected?
a. Some states failed to adopt any policies or put money saved towards reinvestment
b. It was easier for states to focus efforts on nonviolent offenders and parole and
probation violations, ignoring other classes of offenders
c. States have expanded sentences of life without parole while easing up on drug and
non-violent offenders
d. all of these
Ans: D
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