The purpose of ______ is to prevent crime by removing the offender from the community and by placing them in custody via jail or prison time.

A. deterrence
B. incapacitation
C. retribution
D. jurisdiction


B. incapacitation

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What will be an ideal response?

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Crime policy in the United States are more punitive than crime policies in other Western countries for each of the following reasons EXCEPT

a. U.S. judges and prosecutors are career civil servants who receive special training. b. Crime policy in the U.S. is more decentralized. c. Crime policy in the U.S., even at the state level, is reliant on federal funding. d. Sentencing and release decisions in the U.S. are micromanaged by legislators.

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The purpose of the Misdemeanor Trial Law was to reduce punishments for:

A) misdemeanors. B) felonies. C) infractions. D) None of the above.

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A variable which has two attributes such as gender, is what type of variable?

a. sampling variable b. binomial variable c. sampling frame d. representative variable

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