__________ Is Where an Offender Spends a Certain Amount of Time

question 34

Multiple Choice

__________ is where an offender spends a certain amount of time each week, usually during the weekend, in a jail, workhouse, or other government institution, while not detained, the offender carries on with their normal lives.

• A) shock incarceration
• B) split-sentence probation
• C) suspended sentence
• D) intermittent incarceration

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Definitions:

Ethics

The study of a way of life and its values, including a system of general moral principles and a conception of morality and its foundations. Sometimes the term simply refers to the study of moral principles.

Duty-Defined Morality

The view that moral right and wrong are determined first of all by a conception of a person’s duties and obligations.

Utilitarianism

An ethical theory that proposes that the best action is the one that maximizes utility, usually defined as that which produces the greatest well-being of the greatest number of people.

Virtue Ethics

The view that the central feature in the evaluation of people and their actions should be the character of the agent. Aristotle’s ethics are often described as a form of virtue ethics.