ew of liberals, but conservatives see these inequalities as the natural outcome of differences in abilities or skills among people. As conservative political analyst George Will wrote, "poverty is simply the result of too many black babies and too many irresponsible Black men" among African Americans (Spriggs, 2006, p. 14). It is this historical difference that informs and shapes society's response to criminal behavior where both prevention and punishment is concerned. For example, conservatives favor stiff sentences for drug offenders whereas
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