What Is Specific Deterrence

question 41

Multiple Choice

What is specific deterrence?

• A) the preventive effect of threat of punishment on the general population of potential offenders
• B) the discouragement of future criminal behavior in the person who received punishment
• C) the inability of criminals to victimize people outside prison walls while they are locked up
• D) the punishment strategy that reserves prison for violent repeat offenders

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Definitions:

Mechanisms

Outlines the sequential elementary reactions that lead to the total chemical transformation.

Major Organic Product

The primary substance produced in abundance from a chemical reaction that involves organic compounds.

Reaction Mechanism

The step-by-step sequence of elementary reactions by which overall chemical change occurs, illustrating how reactants are converted into products.

Substitution Reaction

A chemical process where one atom or group of atoms within a molecule is substituted by a different atom or group of atoms.