What is the authors’ explanation for the relationships between social class and the justice system?
A) The kinds of crimes listed by the FBI are those of the upper classes.
B) The police and others in the criminal justice system assume that upper-class people are criminal.
C) Economic deprivation may induce people to turn to crime to ease their situations.
D) People in the lower classes have social networks that help them to avoid detection and prosecution.
Answer: C
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