1) Spending on incarceration at the local, state, and federal levels in the last twenty years rose ___%.
a. 571.4%
b. 236.8%
c.127.3%
d.178.9%

2) Spending on education, grades k-12, at the local, state, and federal levels in the last twenty years rose___%
a.112%
b.86%
c.47%
d.33.4%

3) California's higher education budget shrank three percent between 1988 and 1998, while the corrections industry budget _____________________.
a. maintained the same level
b. rose by 60%
c. fell by 20%
d. rose by 60% then fell by twice that percentage

4) The state of California is number 43 in spending on public education, while it is ranked number _____ on prison spending in the nation.
a. 1
b. 38
c. 40
d. 12

5) Household name corporations, like American Express, Allstate, Merrill Lynch, General Electric (GE), Shearson Lehman and Victoria's Secret are now, or have been, involved in financing the building of new prisons and or prison labor.
a. True
b. False

6) According to a recent Gallup poll, adults estimated that youth were responsible for 43% of violent crimes. In reality, the FBI statistics show that juveniles are responsible for 46% of violent crimes.
a. True
b. False

7) 76% of the public say they form their opinions about crime from what they see or read in the news.
a. True
b. False

8) Between 1984 and 1999, juvenile arrests in San Francisco declined 46%, yet juvenile detention bookings increased 22%.
a. True
b. False

9) Seven out of ten local t.v. news stories on violence in California involved youth.
a. True
b. False

10) Violent youth crimes that are portrayed in the news are reported proportionately to their occurrence in society.
a. True
b. False

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