The United States has experienced a boom in building prisons and implementing longer sentences for drug crimes and crimes of violence. This illustrates the United States tendency toward which of the following as a purpose of punishment?
a. retribution
b. rehabilitation
c. deterrence
d. incapacitation
D
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What will be an ideal response?
4. What is neoclassical criminology, and how does it differ from the classical perspective? How does it build on the classical perspective?
What will be an ideal response?
If victims wish to recoup their losses following a crime, they must rely on:
A. substantive criminal law. B. procedural criminal law. C. real estate law. D. civil law. E. cooperative law.
The inability to analyze and link critical information is referred to as ________
A) linkage blindness B) proprietary blindness C) ego D) information blindness