For the better part of the past three decades, the American criminal justice system has mostly rejected many of the principles of rehabilitation as a philosophical reason for punishment in favor of other, more __________, strategies.

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The sentence states that the American criminal justice system has rejected the principles of rehabilitation as a reason for punishment. This implies that the system has adopted a more punitive approach to punishment, making option D the correct choice. Options A and B are not relevant to what the sentence is stating, and option C is too broad and not specific enough to fit the context of the sentence.

For the Better Part of the Past Three Decades, the American