Sophisticated Computer Programs Allow States to Draw District Lines to Concentrate

question 69

Multiple Choice

Sophisticated computer programs allow states to draw district lines to concentrate one party's strength and dilute the opposing party's strength. This process is known as .

• A) packing and cracking
• B) reapportionment
• C) racial gerrymandering
• D) minority-majority districting
• E) malapportionment

Explore the implications of formal deviance, such as crime, and its societal response.

Investigate the role of technology and modern concerns, such as cyberattacks, in contemporary understandings of deviance.

Analyze how social movements impact societal perceptions and definitions of deviance.

Understand the trend in crime rates since the 1990s and factors influencing these trends.

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Relating to or based on arithmetic, the branch of mathematics dealing with the properties and manipulation of numbers.