Darley and His Colleagues Investigated How People's General Thoughts About

Darley and his colleagues investigated how people's general thoughts about punishment differed from that found in the Model Penal Code. They found that generally

A) people did not feel that the intent to commit a crime was the same as actually committing the crime.
B) when a person had taken only preliminary action toward committing a crime, few respondents thought the prospective perpetrator was guilty.
C) when a person had taken action described as reaching "the point of dangerous proximity to the crime," respondents thought that punishment should be less severe than that given to those who had completed the crime.
D) All of these are correct.