1.Why are women more likely to be incarcerated within the United Sates than other countries? Explain how social views concerning women may lead to higher rates of incarceration.How would this issue be explained from each viewpoint of the three major theoretical perspectives.

2.Why do you think the incarceration rate, in general, is higher in the United States than in other countries?Does this fact suggest that people in the United States are more criminal, that we have different approaches to defining deviance, that we place more efforts on crime control, that there is less tolerance for deviation, or other expectations?

3.How can we reduce U.S. health-care costs?

4.How could we provide health care efficiently to all of those who do not have insurance and cannot afford to pay for health care?

5.How can the conflict theory of health and illness help to explain the high cost of health care?