What Has Driven the Movement Toward Community Corrections

question 34

Multiple Choice

What has driven the movement toward community corrections?

• A) low rates of incarceration in Canada
• B) humanitarian concerns that prison life is too pleasant
• C) the fact that community programs are much cheaper than incarceration
• D) effective ties with the community using incarceration

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Definitions:

Confirmation Error

What occurs when focusing only on information that confirms a decision already made.

Sunk-Cost Fallacy

The misconception that more resources should be dedicated to something because significant resources have already been spent.

Escalation Of Commitment

The phenomenon where people increase their investment in a decision despite new evidence suggesting it may be wrong.

Advance Limits

Predetermined restrictions or ceilings on the amount of funding, resources, or credit that can be allocated or extended in advance of certain conditions being met.