By the 1980s Public Support for Preventive Detention

question 44

Multiple Choice

By the 1980s public support for preventive detention

• A) Was justified by a string of serial killers on the loose
• B) had declined
• C) Was widespread
• D) the public has never supported preventive detention

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Definitions:

Efficient Price

The price at which the quantity of goods supplied is equal to the quantity of goods demanded, leading to an optimal allocation of resources.

Nonrival

A characteristic of a good or service that implies one person's consumption does not reduce its availability to others.

Public Good

A good that is non-excludable and non-rival in consumption, meaning no one can be prevented from using it and one person's use does not reduce availability to others.

Marginal Social Benefit

The additional benefit to society from producing one more unit of a good or service.