Multiple Choice
The Enlightenment proposed which of the following ideas for correctional reform?
A) a rewriting of penal codes to increase the severity of criminal sanctions
B) a greater belief in the application of pain as a specific and general deterrent
C) the invention of the penitentiary, where prisoners could be isolated from the temptations of the outside world
D) an increase in the number of criminal laws and, as a result, a growth in the numbers and types of prisoners
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