This Chapter Suggested How Race and Social Class or Socioeconomic

question 28

Essay

This chapter suggested how race and social class or socioeconomic status (SES) can influence the likelihood of arrest. Are discrepancies in arrest for black versus white sellers and users, and lower and working class versus middle-class sellers and users, solely due to race and class bias and discrimination, or are other factors at work-for instance, use and purchase patterns and law enforcement-to-seller-and-user points of contact-that might influence these discrepancies?

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A spread of statistical figures, obtained by analyzing samples, seen as encompassing the unseen value of a population parameter.

Standard Deviation

An index to assess the range of fluctuation or deviation in a series of numbers.

Daily Sales

The total revenue or units sold by a business during a single day.

Teleprocessing Transactions

Transactions carried out over a telecommunications network, commonly involving data exchange between computers.