African Americans are still more likely than Whites to be frisked and handled with force when they are stopped by police.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

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a. societal reaction to all diseases results from a complex intertwining of biology with political, social, and cultural considerations b. people respond to all diseases with the same sense of urgency and importance irrespective of its nature and reasons for origin c. the powerful elites in a society can influence people's attitude to certain diseases only to a small extent d. the stigma and socio-cultural opinions attached to a disease become obsolete when people realize that the suffering those affected is enormous

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Since the 1940s, there has historically been an overrepresentation of __________ working in the agricultural industry.

A) children B) women C) migrant workers D) white

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Arrest rates among those using alcohol are __________ arrest rates of non-drinkers.

A) higher than B) lower than C) the same as D) not reliably comparable to

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One of the factors related to criminologist Jeffrey Reiman's statement,"Prison produces more criminals than it cures," is

A. educational programs in prison are overfunded and therefore unsuccessful. B. the kind of person who gets sent to prison will become a criminal sooner or later. C. inmates prefer living in prison to having to support themselves on the outside. D. prisons provide learning experiences for prisoners in the art of crime.

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