The government wants to reduce white-collar crime. suppose for the moment innocent people are never wrongly convicted of a crime. according to the becker model of crime and punishment, why should we increase the fines people pay if they are convicted instead of hiring more people to investigate white-collar crime?

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.