Saylor and Iwaszko (2009) acknowledge that the huge incarceration increase over the last 20 years was likely responsible for ______ of the decrease in violent crime since the mid-1990s.

a. 10–35%
b. 20–34%
c. 45–57%
d. 34–67%


a. 10–35%

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