_______ refers to the process of lessening the penalties attached to particular offenses.

________ among female inmates is very high.

________ capacity refers to the inmate population the institution was originally built to handle.

________ incapacitation is a strategy that would imprison almost all serious offenders.

________ incapacitation seeks to identify the most dangerous criminals.

A parole board makes decisions about _____ release.

Coherent system of beliefs, values, and ideas is called Ideology

Steady rise in Earth’s average temperature as a result of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is called Global climate change

Process by which beliefs, technology, customs, and other elements of culture spread from one group or society to another is called

Countermovement is a collective action designed to prevent or reverse changes sought or accomplished by an earlier social movement

Anomie is a condition in which rapid change has disrupted society’s ability to adequately regulate and control its members and the old rules that governed people’s lives no longer seem to apply