SOC 325 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025 (ALREADY PASSED)
One way to back up tough-on-crime rhetoric (chp 1) - Answers Legislators pass punitive three-strikes and mandatory minimum sentences
Federal prison increase (chp 1) - Answers -Between there was a 600% increase.
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One way to back up tough-on-crime rhetoric (chp 1) - Answers Legislators pass punitive three-strikes and
mandatory minimum sentences
Federal prison increase (chp 1) - Answers -Between 1980-2017 there was a 600% increase.
-Driven by drug enforcement
US incarceration rate (chp 1) - Answers Over 25% of world population
U.S. imprisonment rate (chp 1) - Answers 700 per 10,000 US residents
Tough on crime [race edition] (chp 1) - Answers -Mainly men and minorities
-Black men rates ar e 5.5x that of white males
Type of prison admissions & their rates (chp 1) - Answers - 70% nonviolent: property crime, drug crime,
public order crime
-30%: violent crimes
Types of correctional control (chp 1) - Answers -Prison
-Jail
-Probation
-Parole
Prison vs Jail (chp 1) - Answers -Prison: Houses those convicted with a felony (imprisonable)
-Jails: Houses those convicted with a misdemeanors
Probation (chp 1) - Answers -Conditional release
-Diversion from incarceration in lieu of prison
How are the 6.6 millions people under correctional control split up? (chp 1) - Answers - Majority 56% are
on probation
-25% (1/4) are in prison
-12% on parole
-11% in jail
Crime control goal - Answers Reduce crime and recidivism by increasing the severity of punishment
What years were crime at an all-time high in the U.S.? (chp 1) - Answers The 1960's-70's
, Southern strategy (chp 1) - Answers - Efforts to bring Southern and Northern working-class white into
the Republican party by appealing to racial anxieties
-Fundamentally changed the landscape of politics
Nixon and the Republican party (chp 1) - Answers - Latched onto crime and disorder as the problem and
punishment as the solution
-Started the "Tough on crime" movement
Regan administration (chp 1) - Answers - Federal government become involved in crime control at the
local level
-Primary avenue for federal involvement = drug-control effort
1984 Sentencing Reform Act (chp 1) - Answers Highly tough and punitive sentencing guidelines
particularly targeted for drug offenders.
Bush 41 (chp 1) - Answers - Used political power of fear, anxiety, and race on one hand and tough on
crime on the other
- Michael Dukakis & Willie Horton Tv smear
- Bushes solution: more convictions, prisons, and ramped war on drugs
Bill Clinton (chp 1) - Answers - Democrat who campaigned for more police, boot camps, prison
expansions, tougher drug penalties
- Violent crime control and law enforcement act in 1994 (provided money for crime prevention, local law
enforcement, and state prison expansion)
Anticrime bill: USA Patriot Act (chp 1) - Answers Dramatically expanded the investigative abilities of law
enforcement bypassing provisions of 4th amendment protection against unreasonable search & seizure,
and expanding opportunities for warrantless searches.
Smart on Crime Initiative (chp 1) - Answers Focused on lessening the punishment of low-level ,
nonviolent offenders and bolstering prison reentry efforts to reduce recidivism
Republican crime control policies (chp 1) - Answers -Expansion of prison capacity
-Increasing serving time
-Mandatory sentencing
-More law enforcement presence
-Continuing the war on drugs
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