When Hispanic and black offenders face harsher sentencing than Whites who have identical crimes and identical criminal backgrounds, they are experiencing:

a.direct discrimination (main effect)
b.pure justice
c.subtle discrimination (indirect effect)
d.insubtle discrimination (interaction effect)


a.direct discrimination (main effect)

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