One of the Factors Related to Criminologist Jeffrey Reiman's Statement,"Prison

question 42

Multiple Choice

One of the factors related to criminologist Jeffrey Reiman's statement,"Prison produces more criminals than it cures," is

• A) educational programs in prison are overfunded and therefore unsuccessful.
• B) the kind of person who gets sent to prison will become a criminal sooner or later.
• C) inmates prefer living in prison to having to support themselves on the outside.
• D) prisons provide learning experiences for prisoners in the art of crime.

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Definitions:

Economic Perspective

A viewpoint that analyzes how individuals make decisions based on scarcity and the incentives that influence those decisions.

Marginal Costs

The uptick in full pricing incurred by the generation of another unit of a product or service.

Marginal Benefits

The increase in utility or satisfaction from consuming or producing an extra unit of a good or service.

Post Hoc

A logical fallacy that assumes that if one event occurs after another, then the first event must have caused the second.