Identifying and incapacitating people we believe to be at high risk for future criminal activity before they have had the opportunity to commit those future criminal acts is a practice referred to as:

a. Deterrence.
b. Selective incapacitation.
c. Risk avoidance.
d. Psychological determinism.


b

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Historically, ______ and the death penalty have been closely associated.

What will be an ideal response?

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One of the defining features of all control theories is that they seek to explain why people ________ commit crime

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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One stressing psychoanalysis and the other stressing personality traits.

What will be an ideal response?

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From a positivistic perspective, a consideration of drug use has as its mission answering the question: Why do some people use illegal drugs?

a. true b. false

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