A major reason for the reduction in the crime rate in recent ...

[joe]

A major reason for the reduction in the crime rate in recent years has been:
 
  a. a decrease in the number of males in the young-adult age bracket
  b. increased job opportunities
  c. increased levels of education
  d. increased spending on law enforcement

Question 2

While colonial powers, including the United States, have found it relatively easy to conquer less industrialized and militarized people, what has proven nearly impossible?
 
  a. building up a system of trade with those countries
  b. helping them to rebuild
  c. ruling the conquered people in a way they viewed as legitimate
  d. extracting raw goods and resources from the country

[Jbrasil]

Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C