According to Akers and Sellers, good, sound criminal justice and social policies designed to prevent or control crime that are derived from theories of criminal and delinquent behavior:
A) need only to make sense or be plausible from a theoretical point of view
B) must be shown through empirical evaluation that they are effective
C) must relate primarily to controllable variables in criminal justice system such as police practices
D) b and c only
E) all of the above
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