PrepTest 108, Section 4, Question 12
Much of mainstream thinking concerning juvenile delinquency in(460 more words not shown)
In relation to the second(18 more words not shown)
- Adescribe a policy(8 more words not shown)
- Billustrate and support(17 more words not shown)
- Cprovide an example(13 more words not shown)
- Dshow an interpretation(16 more words not shown)
- Ereiterate the flaws(6 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
First identify what each sentence does. The second sentence reports research suggesting that incarceration can perpetuate delinquency. The later sentence asks whether a shoplifter could instead return the goods and apologize.
What we’re looking for
That's a concrete example of the alternative the writer recommends in response to the concern raised by the research.
Working the answers
- A
The writer favors this response. It isn't introduced as a policy to criticize.
- BCorrect
The proposed approach is rehabilitation without incarceration, and the shoplifting example shows what that could look like. The earlier finding helps motivate it: if confinement can reinforce delinquency, there is a reason to consider a penalty that teaches responsibility without confinement.
- C
Mainstream thinking favors severe punishment, often incarceration. Returning the goods and apologizing illustrates the writer's alternative to that approach, not confirmation of it.
- D
The shoplifting scenario isn't a competing interpretation of data. It shows a possible response to the problem the research raises.
- E
The sentence doesn't revisit the criminologists' methodology. It proposes something a young offender could be required to do.
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