What Has Been the Impetus for Using Alternatives to Incarceration

question 36

Multiple Choice

What has been the impetus for using alternatives to incarceration?

• A) court rulings that indicate incarcerating certain offenders is unconstitutional
• B) research findings that indicate incarceration increases an offender's likelihood of recidivism
• C) a paradigmatic shift from retribution to rehabilitative ideals
• D) prison overcrowding and the high cost of constructing new prisons

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