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Provide a Definition for the Certainty of Punishment and the Severity

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Essay

Provide a definition for the certainty of punishment and the severity of punishment. How do these two components work together in deterrence theory? Is one component more important at deterring crime than the other? Justify your position.


Definitions:

Simple Random Sample

A portion of a statistical population where every member in that portion is equally likely to be selected.

Mean Difference

The average difference between two sets of data. It is commonly used in comparisons of before and after measurements or between experimental and control groups.

Standard Deviation

An assessment of the range of variation or dispersion present in a set of numeric values, demonstrating how spread out the values are in relation to the average.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated by summing all the values and then dividing by the total number of values.

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