Bureaucracies tend to increase the personnel and resources used to maintain manage the organization.​

Many observers believe the relationship between racism and the criminal justice system is reciprocal.​

​The last public execution in American took place in Wheeling, West Virginia, on November 17, 1929.

​States with more generous welfare benefits have higher prison populations.

​             of those convicted receive a community sentence such as a fine or probation.

​Correctional officers often rely on ________to gain cooperation.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four primary strategies for dealing with overcrowded prisons?​

Drug crimes are the only place we see discriminatory incarceration rates.​

Aggravated and mitigating circumstances are looked at during the sentencing phase of a bifurcated trial.​

​More than half of all jail occupants are: