One of the main difficulties in subjecting deterrence theory to scientific testing is:
A) the theory is more a policy prescription than criminological theory.
B) scientific technique are not advanced enough to fully embrace the theory.
C) it is difficult to construct clearly defined (measurable) and concepts and fully specified (testable) hypotheses.
D) there are too many religious or supernatural ideas in deterrence theory.
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