What Has Driven the Movement Toward Community Corrections

question 34

Multiple Choice

What has driven the movement toward community corrections?

• A) low rates of incarceration in Canada
• B) humanitarian concerns that prison life is too pleasant
• C) the fact that community programs are much cheaper than incarceration
• D) effective ties with the community using incarceration

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Definitions:

Replicable

Replicable refers to the ability of a study or experiment to be repeated with consistent results by other researchers or experimenters.

Experimental Group

In research, the group of participants that receives the treatment or intervention under investigation to determine its effect.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group of subjects that does not receive the experimental treatment and is used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.

Parsimonious

Describing an approach or theory that is simple in its assumptions and explanations while still adequately explaining or predicting phenomena.