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ACT Reading 2.7 Social Science Passage. With whom does Ferri associate the corrective school of criminal law?
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painful than lowercase punishment.
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With whom does Ferri associate the corrective school of criminal law?
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By now, we remember that Beccaria is associated with the classical, not the corrective school
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of criminal law.
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Choice (A) is out of the running.
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Though Ferri does say that the ancient Romans were all about civil law,
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he actually calls them out for having no formal philosophy on the subject.
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(B) is a no-go.
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Ferri also claims that there was no school of criminal philosophy in Medieval times,
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and he even points out that the punishments were kind of harsh.
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Answer (D) is eliminated.
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Ferri does indeed associate the school of criminal law with Roeder, making (C) the correct answer.
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All these school names sound harsh.
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Couldn't anybody think of a friendlier term, maybe something like the "School of Rainbows and Unicorns?
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