In the 1990s, Many Isolated Individuals Began to See the Growth

question 4

Multiple Choice

In the 1990s, many isolated individuals began to see the growth of federal prison populations as a problem. Later they would form groups to protest the policies that imprisoned so many, but first they were part of:

• A) a fad or fashion.
• B) cultural lag.
• C) the incipient stage of a social movement.
• D) the bureaucratized stage of a social movement.
• E) a collective action.

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Statute of Frauds

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