What are the demographics (social characteristics) of today’s prisoners? What gender and racial disparities, if any, exist in today’s prison populations?
What will be an ideal response?
Most people sentenced to state prisons have been convicted of violent crimes; most federal prisoners were convicted of drug-law violations. Imprisonment varies considerably between states. Almost 93 percent of incarcerated offenders are men; the rate of imprisonment for men is 14 times higher than the rate for females. There is a huge disparity between blacks and whites in prison. Almost 17% of adult black men in the U.S. have served time in prison, compared to only 7.7% of adult Hispanic males and only 2.6% of adult white males. The incarcerate rate of black men in their 20s is seven times greater than for whites.
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Briefly describe the slippery slope theory of police corruption.
What will be an ideal response?
Datasets vary based on all of the following EXCEPT ______.
a. type of information b. who manages the dataset c. the funding source of the project d. the purpose of the data
A surge in violent crime began in that ended the historic drop in the U.S. crime rate and marked the first significant increase in violent crime since the early 1990s
a. 2001 b. 2008 c. 2005 d. 1999
If a researcher wanted to determine the amount of cocaine use in an inner-city area of Chicago, which type of study would he most likely use?
a. police data b. in-person interviews c. self-report survey d. victimization survey