Multiple Choice
A successful white businessman is sentenced to serve one year of probation for selling drugs, while a 22-year-old unemployed African-American male who never graduated high school is given five years in a prison for the same crime. This is an example of
A) administrative sentencing.
B) good-time policies.
C) sentencing disparity.
D) presumptive sentencing.
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