What ethical theory looks at the present in assessing the impact of alternate sentences, focusing less on the act committed and more on the character of the person who committed it and how a sentence would work to achieve moral virtue?

a. Formalism
b. Virtue ethics
c. Utilitarianism
d. None of the above


b

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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