This president coined the term “War on Drugs” declaring illegal drugs as “public enemy number one” in the 1960s and 70’s
Who is Richard Nixon?
100
African American males see ________________ as a normal way of life.
What is incarceration?
100
Age that the North Carolina criminal justice system considers to be an adult
What is 16?
100
Job training, quality education, targeting health conditions, creating jobs, and reshuffling police parole
What is macro interventions to decrease mass incarceration?
200
This president changed drug policy enforcing mandatory minimum sentences and made dramatic changes in funding federal agencies to aid in the drug war.
Who is Ronald Regan?
200
What disease do African Americans have a heightened risk of contraction while incarcerated?
What is HIV/AIDS?
200
A signed agreement between a juvenile, their parent/guardian, and juvenile court counselor that sets guidelines/actions that the juvenile can take to reduce involvement in juvenile justice system
What is a diversion contract/plan?
200
The campaign that calls for cutting the prison population and investing more in alternatives to incarceration
What is the Right on Crime campaign?
300
This kind of offense is the single most important cause of the explosion in incarceration rates in the United States
What is a non-violent, drug offense?
300
Rates of _________________ are significantly higher for ex-convicts than the general population.
What is unemployment?
300
Programs that work with youth 11-18 that focus on altering interactions between family members
What is Functional Family Therapy?
300
_____________ works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocating for alternatives to incarceration.
What is Sentencing Project?
400
Which specific group in our country have been admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is more than 13 times higher than white men?
Who are African American males?
400
Over incarceration of African American males increases the occurrences of _______________________ within families
What is stress and dissolution?
400
Clinics that provide non-violent first time offenders with the opportunity to have records cleared
What are expungement clinics?
400
Enforcing conditions of probation, requiring job search or education, and mandating substance abuse
treatment are what ______________.
What is macro interventions to decrease mass incarceration?
500
Granting law enforcement officials extraordinary discretion regarding whom to stop, search, arrest, and charge for drug offenses, and closing the courthouse doors to all claims by defendants and private litigants that the criminal justice system operates in a racially discriminatory fashion reinforces what type of social problem?
What is racism?
500
Rights to vote, posses a fire arm, and utilize federal funding for continuing education are revoked once labeled ___________.
What is an ex-convict?
500
52% of state inmates and 63% of federal inmates report being what?
What is a parent?
500
Reorganizing the scheduling of drugs is what type of intervention?