Policing and Criminal Justice

Do federal or state prisons have more inmates serving drug sentences as a percentage?

• Federal prisons have more, about 50% of federal prisoners are drug offenders, while 16% of state prisoners are drug offenders

• State prisons have more, about 50% of state prisoners are drug offenders, while 16% of federal prisoners are drug offenders

• Federal and state prisons have approximately the same amount of prisoners serving time for drug offenses

According to the reading, what groups should we pay more attention to if we want to tackle America's incarceration issue?

• Police

• Judges

• Prosecutors and Politicians

• Presidents

Are prosecutors offices centralized or decentralized?

• centralized

• decentralized

What are most people in prison for?

• drugs

• violence

• petty offenses

• marijuana

America currently has the same crime rate that it had in 1970, but incarcerations are _____ times higher

• 10 times higher

• 2 times higher

• 3 times higher

• 5 times higher

What is included in California's realignment approach?

• people convicted of triple-non crimes (non-violent, non-serious, and non-sexual) will be kept in county jails

• people convicted of triple-non crimes (non-violent, non-serious, and non-sexual) will be kept in state jails

• People convicted of triple-non crimes (non-violent, non-serious, and non-sexual) will spend life in jail

• People convicted of triple-non crimes (non-violent, non-serious, and non-sexual) will receive a reduced sentence

Prosecutors are county officials. Prisons are paid for by ___ ______

• the county

• the state

• the feds

• the country

Prosecutors are county officials. Jails are paid for by ____ _______

• the county

• the state

• the feds

• the country

What is recidivism?

• the tendency of a person to never break the law again

• the tendency of a person to break the law

• the tendency of a convicted criminal to re-offend

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What is the first step act?

• an act that increases the disparity between crack and powder cocaine

• an act that reduces the disparity between crack and powder cocaine

• a sentencing reform bill that upholds some of the harsher federal laws of the 80's and 90's

• a sentencing reform bill that repeals some of the harsher federal laws of the 80's and 90's