Jurist: To ensure that a legal

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Stimulus

Jurist: To ensure that a legal system remains just, it is important to guarantee that lawbreaking does not give lawbreakers an unfair advantage over law abiders. Thus, notwithstanding any other goals that criminal punishment to ensure that criminal wrongdoing remains profitless.

What this question is testing

Role

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question

19.

The jurist’s claim that it is important to guarantee that lawbreaking does not give lawbreakers an unfair advantage over law abiders functions in the argument in which

Answer choices

Trap15% picked this
It states a condition that, if fulfilled, will ensure that a legal
15%
Correct71% picked this
It expresses a principle that is offered as support for
Why this is right
Answer B is correct.
Skill tested: Role · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
71%
Trap1% picked this
It is a conclusion for which the only support offered is the claim that the legal
1%
Trap12% picked this
It is a premise presented as support for the claim that the most important goal of criminal punishment is to ensure
12%
Trap0% picked this
It is presented as refuting an argument that criminal punishment has goals other than guaranteeing
0%

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