The Population Reduction Strategy Calls for the Use of Prisons

question 32

True/False

The population reduction strategy calls for the use of prisons only for violent offenders who have not been deterred by other punishments.

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Definitions:

Central Limit Theorem

A statistical theory stating that, given a sufficiently large sample size from a population with a finite level of variance, the mean of all samples will be approximately equal to the mean of the population, with the samples approximating a normal distribution.

Statistical Inference

The process of drawing conclusions about population properties based on a sample taken from the population.

Sample Proportion

The fraction or percentage of items in a sample that exhibit a particular trait or characteristic.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a dataset differ from the mean.