For Deterrence to Be Successful,what Goal Must It Achieve

question 41

Multiple Choice

For deterrence to be successful,what goal must it achieve?

• A)The offender must have to pay a large fine as part of his or her sentence.
• B)The offender must have a job that he or she will lose once they are sentenced.
• C)The offender must be sentenced to at least five years in prison.
• D)The public must be educated about the sentencing policies and how the criminal justice system works.

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Definitions:

Marginal Happiness

The additional satisfaction or utility that a person gains from receiving or consuming one more unit of a good or service.

Sequential Stages

Sequential stages are the consecutive phases or steps in a process or system, where each stage follows the previous one in an orderly progression.

Moral Development

A process through which individuals evolve their understanding of what is right and wrong, often described through stages by psychologists.

Lawrence Kohlberg

An American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.