Chapter 9 Practice Quiz

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. Specific deterrence occurs when others contemplating breaking the law see what happened to those who have been arrested and decide the costs of the crime outweigh the benefits and choose not to engage in the contemplated behavior.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. General deterrence occurs when others contemplating breaking the law see what happened to those who have been arrested and decide the costs of the crime outweigh the benefits and choose not to engage in the contemplated behavior.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Specific deterrence is when an individual offender, after being caught and punished, learns the costs of criminality outweigh its benefits and desists offending.

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False correct incorrect

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. Legal punishment is the state's imposition of intended burdens that express social condemnation of people guilty of crimes.

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. Utilitarian justifications for punishment include deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation.

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. That American society is highly punitive is evidenced by how we discipline and sanction:

Criminal offenders (the courts) correct incorrect

Schoolchildren (school administrators/teachers) correct incorrect

Children (parents) correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Legal punishment raises ethical issues relating to which of the following considerations?

The role of the state correct incorrect

The relationship between the state and its citizens correct incorrect

The role of the criminal law in society correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is a feature of legal punishment?

Intentional infliction of a burden on the offender correct incorrect

There must be a victim correct incorrect

There must be some behavior that is deemed wrong correct incorrect

There must be an audience available to witness it (i.e., it cannot occur in secret) correct incorrect

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. Moral justifications for legal punishment usually attempt to address such considerations as:

Its presumed function(s) correct incorrect

Whether it violates the moral rights of those being punished correct incorrect

Which principles and considerations guide its form/severity of the punishment received correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. In deterrence theory, this component relates to how long in time after the behavior occurs the punishment is administered.

Celerity correct incorrect

Certainty correct incorrect

Severity correct incorrect

Consistency correct incorrect