Which of the Following Spurred the Creation of Federal Sentencing

question 28

Multiple Choice

Which of the following spurred the creation of federal sentencing guidelines?

• A)steady increase of death sentences
• B)increase in crime within prison systems
• C)growing discontent with indeterminate sentences
• D)rise in white-collar crimes

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Definitions:

One-Tailed Test

A hypothesis test in which the region of rejection is only on one side of the sampling distribution, used when a research hypothesis predicts a direction of the effect.

P-Value

The p-value measures the evidence against the null hypothesis, indicating the probability of observing the test results under the null hypothesis.

Two-Tailed

Pertains to a type of hypothesis test where the area of interest is in both tails of the distribution, indicating that deviations from the null hypothesis in either direction are considered.

Alternative Hypothesis

In statistical hypothesis testing, it is the hypothesis that suggests there is a significant difference between the parameters of two or more populations.