Author Question: According to current ideology among social scientists, which of the following reasons best explains ... (Read 53 times)

fnuegbu · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

According to current ideology among social scientists, which of the following reasons best explains why the United States is experiencing mass incarceration and has a significantly higher incarceration rate than any other country?

a. an increase in immigration to the United States
b. an increase in moral crusades against drugs and drug users and tougher political stances against crime
c. higherviolent and non-violent crime rates than any other country
d. a drastic increase in white-collar crime and victimless crime over the last decade

Question 2

Why was the Bracero Program started?

a. to circumvent the quota system imposed by the National Origins Act
b. to supply the growing aviation industry with skilled labor, in the years after World War II
c. to supply labor for defense industry jobs during World War II
d. to stem labor shortages, especially in agriculture and railroad maintenance, in the years after World War II