​A classification system that has a significant amount of overlap is able give correctional administrators guidance about appropriate treatment for offenders.

             adults have committed a serious offense in their lifetime.​

The victim’s perception of the race of the offender:​

​Whites tend to admit to more              crimes than African Americans or Hispanics when completing a self-report survey.

When groups are treated differently without regard to their behavior or qualifications, _______ occurs.​

​Analysts argue that public opinion for the death penalty is:

Patterns of disproportionate representation in the criminal justice system:​

The number of states without the death penalty has               in recent years.​

​Correctional clients, as a group, seem to          the rest of society.

​Ninety percent of all jail inmates are considered indigent and cannot afford counsel.