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

1. A criminal justice intervention that focuses on the severity and the swiftness of punishment will most likely be successful.
2. Theories of offender choice and opportunity do not consider how criminal motivations or criminality develops over time.
3. Theories of offender choice and opportunity have important policy implications in that they can help us make any given place less conducive to crime.
4. In situational action theory, the moral filter consists of moral propensity and moral context.
5. When areas close to an area where an intervention was implemented experience a reduction in crime as well, a displacement effect has occurred.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE

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