Corporal Punishments Like Branding or Amputation, Commonly Used in Colonial

question 23

Multiple Choice

Corporal punishments like branding or amputation, commonly used in colonial America, were designed to

• A) encourage deviance but not crime.
• B) mark the offender.
• C) make the offender impossible to marry.
• D) promote differential association theory.

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