What Is the Name of the Policy That Promotes Sentencing

question 52

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the policy that promotes sentencing repeat offenders to long prison terms while granting first-time and nonviolent offenders shorter and more lenient sentences?

• A)general incapacitation
• B)selective incapacitation
• C)general deterrence
• D)selective deterrence

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Definitions:

Cognitive Processes

Mental actions or operations that are involved in understanding, processing, and storing information, including reasoning, memory, attention, and language.

Classical Conditioning

A pairing process in learning that involves two stimuli; initially, the response is provoked by the second stimulus but over time, the first stimulus provokes the response on its own.

CS-US Associations

The learned associations between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and an unconditioned stimulus (US) in classical conditioning.

Biological Constraints

Biological constraints refer to the idea that genetic and anatomical structures limit the range of behaviors that organisms can physically perform.