The Rising Trend of Incarceration in the U

question 5

Multiple Choice

The rising trend of incarceration in the U.S. is attributed to

• A)the war on drugs and changes in criminal justice policy.
• B)the war on drugs and disproportionality.
• C)the war on drugs and moral panic.
• D)the war on drugs and the treatment of juveniles as adults.

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Definitions:

Critical Value(s)

Critical values are threshold values that define regions where the test statistic leads to the rejection of the null hypothesis.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true, used as a threshold for determining the statistical significance of a result.

Sample Mean

The average value of a sample set of numbers, calculated by summing all observations and dividing by the number of observations.

Standard Deviation

A metric that quantifies the range of diversity or distribution of a series of values.