Restorative Justice Adopts an Alternative Perspective on Crime and Punishment

question 161

True/False

Restorative justice adopts an alternative perspective on crime and punishment. It proponents hold that crime is behaviour that violates people and relationships; a conventional perspective is that crime is a behaviour that violates the state and its laws.

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Definitions:

Smelled Food

The act of detecting the aroma of food, which can trigger physiological reactions such as salivation and influence appetite.

Operant Behavior

Behavior emitted spontaneously or voluntarily that operates on the environment to change it.

Respondent Behavior

Reactions that are automatic and involuntary, typically elicited by specific stimuli, contrasted with operant behavior, which is influenced by its consequences.

Extinguishable Behavior

A learned response that decreases in frequency or disappears when it is no longer reinforced in a behavioral psychology context.