All of the Following Are True of Prisons Except That

question 29

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true of prisons except that:

• A)prisons punish people who commit crimes by denying them freedom for some designated period.
• B)prisons discourage people who have committed crimes from committing them again and deter others from committing them in the first place-at least theoretically.
• C)prisons protect potential victims from dangerous offenders by putting them behind bars.
• D)prisons exist only to punish offenders and not to rehabilitate them.

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Definitions:

Demand Curve

A visual display that illustrates the connection between a product's price and the amount consumers want to buy over a specified time frame.

Supply Curve

A graphical representation showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity supplied, usually illustrating an upward slope.

Equilibrium Quantity

is the quantity of goods or services supplied and demanded at the equilibrium price, where market demand equals market supply.

Price Floor

A price floor is a government-imposed limit on how low a price can be charged for a commodity, typically implemented to protect producers' income.