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Criminologist: Support The main purpose of most criminal organizations is to generate profits. ███ ███████ ███████████ ██ █████████████ ███ ███████████ ██████████ ███████ ██ ████████ ████████ ████████ ██████████ ████████ █████████████ ████ ███████████ ███ ██ ██████ ████████████ ████████ ██ █████ ██████
Summary
The criminologist predicts that criminal organizations will try to further their involvement with certain types of tech. She supports this with two claims: Most criminal organizations want to generate profit, and these technologies will generate profit.
Missing Connection
The support establishes something that these organizations want (profit), and one sufficient path to obtain it (tech). But we can’t assume that a path will be taken just because it is guarantees a goal. We need to know that this ambition is a sufficient condition for the criminologist’s prediction.
12.
The conclusion of the criminologist's ████████ ██ ████████ ████████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████████
a
If an organization █████ ██ ██████ ████████████ ████████ ██ █████ ████ ███████ ██ ████████ ████████ ████████ ████ ███ ████ ███████ ██ ████ ████████████ ██ ██ ████████ ████████
This is switching sufficient and necessary. This answer choice can only support a conclusion about purpose, but we need a conclusion about increasing involvement.
b
At least some ████████ █████████████ ███ ██ ████ ██ ████ █████ ██████ █████ ████ ███ ███████ ███████████ ██ █████████████ ███ ███████████ ██████████ ███████ ██ ████████ ████████ ████████
Awareness does not guarantee action. This would be a correct answer for a Necessary Assumption question.
c
Criminal organizations are ███████ ███████ ████████ ██ █████ ████████ ████ ████████ ██ ████████ ████████ ████████
The conclusion is about increasing efforts. An increase is relative, and we don’t know their starting level of involvement. Regardless of initial involvement, they might not increase their involvement. But we need an airtight conclusion that they will increase involvement.
d
Any organization whose ████ ███████ ██ ██ ████████ ███████ ████ ███ ██ ██████ ████████████ ████████ ██ ███ █████████████ ██████████ ████ ████████ ██ ████████ ████████ ████████
We know that most criminal organizations would have this purpose. So we can conclude that they will try to increase their involvement.
e
Most criminal organizations ███ ███████ ██ ██████ ████████ ██ █████ ██████████ ██ █████ ██████████ ███ ████████████ ███████████
Willingness does not guarantee action. We need to know that these organizations will try to increase their involvement, not just that they are willing to. Additionally, (E) is assuming that these technologies are considered legal activities.