Suppose a corporation is convicted of a crime having a detection ratio of 1-in-10. Based on the passage, the author w...

Ben on November 30, 2019

Hi Tomgbean, thanks for the question!

The author's view in this passage is that in order to properly penalize a company in terms of cost, the penalty should take into account the detection ratios in order to deter future crime (lines 34-39). However, while this would serve a proper punishment and deterrent from crime in monetary terms, this would not be a just punishment because it would likely force those businesses to close and put many people out of work (lines 44-51).

Putting these two together, we get answer choice C, which states that the author would be most likely to agree with a penalty that would deter future crime without forcing the company to go under.

Answer choice D does not reflect the author's stance that the penalty should not be so large as to force the company to go out of business and cause mass unemployment.

I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any other questions.