What connection do the authors draw between victims’ views on punishment and the justice system? A The authors show how the justice system is merely giving into victims’ desires to see criminals punished. B The authors suggest that victims would be less inclined to see someone punished if the justice system provided them with other options. C The authors show how the justice system neglects to properly punish criminals, driving victims to support harsher punishment. D The authors prove how the justice system’s harsh punishment of criminals make victims want more forgiving options.

yes, they are. i think.

answer: c

explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.