What is the hands-off doctrine?
A) avoidance by the U.S. Supreme Court of judicial intervention in the operations of prisons and the judgment of correctional administrators
B) a theory of corrections that offenders were sick, inflicted with problems that caused their criminality
C) a conclusion by Robert Martinson that no correctional treatment program reduces recidivism
D) a four-stage system of graduated release from prison and return to the community
Answer: A
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