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​There is no right to parole in the United States.

​Young people who live in poverty and disadvantage may develop what has been called “____________,” which includes a greater willingness to commit violence.

Depriving an offender of the ability to commit crimes against society, usually by detention in prison, is:​

​During the Enlightenment, advances in scientific thinking led to an inquisitive attitude that emphasized all of the following ideas except for:

​The deserved-punishment approach requires sanctions be administered solely for the goal of incapacitation.

​Most people would hardly call their own job a           if they had been seen at work only three or four times.

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

African Americans make up roughly 13 percent of the entire U.S. population, but make almost 40 percent of the U.S. prison population.​

​Prison surpassed college as a place for young African American men after:

​Community-based punishments such as probation and intermediate sanctions are imposed far more often than prison sentences in the United States.