Annabelle Smith Has a Firm Personal Conviction That the American

Annabelle Smith has a firm personal conviction that the American criminal justice system treats everyone fairly. Then, in a sociology course she reads several studies that demonstrate that, compared to the punishments others receive, members of minority groups receive harsher sentences. Max Weber would tell Ms. Smith that

A) she must accept these findings as the manifest function of the criminal justice system.
B) the differential treatment experienced by members of minority groups is their personal trouble.
C) she has come face to face with an "inconvenient fact."
D) she should conclude that these studies are flawed because her personal knowledge suggests that the system is fair.
E) she should view these findings as "exceptions that prove the rule" of basic fairness.