This Act directed the Sentencing Commission to provide sentencing enhancement (add time to a sentence) for those crimes proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be hate crimes.
A. Justice for All Act
B. Victims of Crime Act
C. Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act
D. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
D. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
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One of the main difficulties in subjecting deterrence theory to scientific testing is:
a. the theory is more a policy prescription than criminological theory. b. scientific technique are not advanced enough to fully embrace the theory. c. it is difficult to construct clearly defined (measurable) and concepts and fully specified (testable) hypotheses. d. there are too many religious or supernatural ideas in deterrence theory.
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