PrepTest 108, Section 4, Question 9
Much of mainstream thinking concerning juvenile delinquency in(460 more words not shown)
The author's opinion about the(20 more words not shown)
- AThey advocate the(7 more words not shown)
- BTheir advocacy of(10 more words not shown)
- CTheir research findings(11 more words not shown)
- DTheir research findings(13 more words not shown)
- EThe errors in(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The writer uses the research to build the case for a different response. These criminologists have identified a potentially harmful effect of incarceration, but they haven't translated that finding into a policy. So the assessment has two parts: useful research, unfinished policy work.
Working the answers
- A
They haven't advocated a policy. The writer's objection also isn't that their research findings are erroneous.
- B
No mistaken policy is identified as distorting their findings. This invents both a policy commitment and a resulting defect in the research.
- C
Useful findings fits, but incompatible policies doesn't. The issue is that they haven't proposed a policy, not that their recommendation contradicts their findings.
- DCorrect
The writer calls the finding “an interesting point” and says the criminologists “do not make an attempt” to translate it into policy. The later argument takes their concern seriously and develops the practical response they haven't supplied.
- E
Again, this assumes research errors and an advocated policy. Neither describes the assessment. The writer builds on the findings while criticizing the failure to draw out a policy.
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