​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:

In the United States, a recent poll indicated that __________ percent of the population favors capital punishment.​

​One-fourth of those convicted of a crime receive a community sentence such as a fine or probation. 

Hispanics and whites are subjected to the criminal justice system at much higher rates than blacks.​