The Fact That Policies Aimed at Reducing Crime May Actually

question 27

Multiple Choice

The fact that policies aimed at reducing crime may actually increase it if crime is an inferior enough good and the income effect of the crime prevention policies is big enough is known as the

• A) Slutsky paradox
• B) opportunity paradox
• C) paradox of crime prevention

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Definitions:

Flowering Plants

Plants that produce flowers as their reproductive structures; members of the angiosperm lineage.

Diploid Generation

The phase in the life cycle of a plant or algae that has a double set of chromosomes, typical of the sporophyte generation.

Conifers

A group of cone-bearing seed plants predominantly evergreen, such as pines and firs, characterized by needles or scale-like leaves.

Gymnosperm

Seed plant whose seeds are not enclosed within a fruit; a conifer, cycad, ginkgo, or gnetophyte.