Crime & Punishment

4. hundred, Even though the murder rate fell by 20% in the 1990's, network news stories about murder increased ____ %.
5. Laws, Laws that criminalized being homeless and jobless.
8. minimum, ________ sentences require judges to administer prison terms for a specific period of times based on the crime
10. strikes law, If you have 2 prior felonies, your third sentence will be life in prison.
11. Rates, Remained the same, and even decreased while the prison boom happened.
14. ________policies were responsible for 88% of the prison boom.
17. Overall, high school drug use has _____ since the 1980's.
18. Collar Crime, Examples of _________ include fraud, identity theft, environmental law violations, embezzlement, and money laundering.
19. 85% of Americans think the country is ____ on crime.

1. States, Country with the highest incarceration rates in the world.
2. Immigrants make the United States ______.
3. Economy, Selling tacos on the street, working as a babysitter, and selling drugs are all part of the ________.
6. 2,300 _____ men, women and children who were lynched.
7. Between 1980 and 2011, the number of _____ in prison increased by 587 percent.
9. Americans, have been portrayed as terrorists in the United States.
12. leasing, Southern states leased prisoners to private companies for state profit.
13. Even though crime rates have been falling, 60% of Americans believe they are _____.
15. Starting in the 1970's, politicians began using _____ as a focal point to get into office
16. Between 1970 and 2003, the number of prisons grew.