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

1. Enlightenment ideas eventually led to the positivist school of thought.
2. Positivist approaches to punishment invoked the notion of science to determine the causes of crime and craft the appropriate punishments.
3. The principle of utility was used to evaluate the success of prisons.
4. Early state-controlled punishment was typically as severe as uncontrolled vengeance.
5. Beccaria is associated with the idea of hedonistic calculus.


1. False
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False

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