Multiple choice

The judicial system should take a clue from thefollowing report and take urgent corrective measures. There has been a startling revelation in the recent report released by Amnesty International, which says that now the first time criminals who are sent to prison for cases of petty crimes are more likely to return to prison for more serious crimes than had been ever before.

Which of the following is the most reasonable conclusion that can be drawn from the statements above?

  1. First time criminals should be left with rebuke and not sent to jail.

  2. All the criminals should be kept under severe observations.

  3. Penalty is sometimes a poor solution to correct people.

  4. Crime rate has substantially increased in previous years.

  5. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The author claims that now the criminals who are punished for petty crimes are more likely to commit serious crimes and return to the prison than ever before. This could be due to influence of bad elements on them in the prison, so instead of transforming them back to normal persons, they are hardened into habitual offenders. Therefore, (3) is the most reasonable conclusion that can be drawn out of the above passage.

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