As an Approach to Punishment, Community Corrections Suffers from the Public

question 56

Multiple Choice

As an approach to punishment, community corrections suffers from the public image of being:

• A) hard on crime.
• B) soft on crime.
• C) increasing crime.
• D) decreasing crime.
• E) none of these.

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Definitions:

Research Hypothesis

A statement predicting a significant relationship or effect between variables, tested against the null hypothesis.

Null Hypothesis

A statement of no effect or no difference, which researchers aim to test against the alternative hypothesis.

Statistical Significance

Statistical significance indicates the likelihood that a result from data collected and analyzed in a study is not due to chance, typically measured by a p-value.

Significance Level

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability level below which the null hypothesis is rejected, typically set at 0.05 or 5%.