There Is Relatively Little Research Testing for Racial Discrimination in the Sentencing

Multiple Choice

There is relatively little research testing for racial discrimination in the sentencing of individuals convicted of misdemeanor offenses.Because the lower courts where misdemeanor cases are handled usually have huge caseloads and informal,nonadversarial procedures for delivering what is often referred to as _______________,one might predict that the likelihood of racially disparate decisions would be even greater in these courts than in the more formal felony courts.

A) "American justice"
B) "procedural justice"
C) "real justice"
D) "assembly-line justice,"