Social scientific studies on sympathy have found that we are generally less willing to express sympathetic attitudes if we perceive a person's suffering to have been brought about by her or his own negligence or poor decision-making

a. True b. False


a

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Which stage/level of Kohlberg’s theory is dominated by the desire to avoid punishment?

a. punishment and obedience b. reciprocity c. conventional morality d. postconventional morality

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The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 includes this category to the list of hate crimes.

A. disabilities B. gender C. age D. occupations

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The reforms instituted by Alexander Maconochie were such a success that upon release his prisoners became to known as ________.

What will be an ideal response?

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Punishment that assumes that members of the general public will not commit a crime because they observe the punishment of others who have committed a crime is called a. incapacitation

b. specific deterrence. c. rehabilitation. d. general deterrence.

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