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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What will be an ideal response?
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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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