Critical Reasoning (CR) | Criminologist: Increasing the current prison term for robbery will

Criminologist: Increasing the current prison term for robbery will result in no significant effect in discouraging people from committing robbery.

Each of the following, if true, supports the criminologist’s claim EXCEPT:

(A) Many people who rob are motivated primarily by thrill-seeking and risk-taking
(B) An increase in the prison term for embezzlement did not change the rate at which that crime was committed
(C) Prison terms for robbery have generally decreased in length recently
(D) Most
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