The well-known "scared straight" program, wherein maximum-security prison inmates share their stories of incarceration with teenagers to deter them from criminal behaviors, is an example of:

A) an educational intervention.

Explanation:

"Scared Straight" a series that use an educational program to encourage crime prevention.

This type of programs shows the consequences of committing crime and play on the reality of being in prison.

The series helps children and teenagers have a better understanding of the implications of committing major and minor crimes.

The law is enforced through education and an educational intervention a program that is designed in advance before that happens.

Taking steps ahead, in anticipation enables some social programs to be successful as long as they can interpret the reality the better way.

However, the intervention has a limited impact and of course is subject to other variables that should be considered.

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representative sample

sociologists study the world, observe a predicament or interesting design, and set out to investigate it. they use investigation methods to design a study possibly a comprehensive, detailed and precise, by using experimental method for directing research and gathering data.

to study the characteristics of the whole population, sociologist prefers to obtain the sample which is the finite part of a demographic population whose characteristics are analyzed to obtain data from statistics.

when administering with population, it can be described as a set of respondents picked from a larger population for the goal of a survey. a population could be a group of objects, people, or articles from which samples are obtained for computation of the whole population which is the aim of the sociological study.