Corporal punishments like branding or amputation, commonly used in colonial America, were designed to
A) encourage deviance but not crime.
B) mark the offender.
C) make the offender impossible to marry.
D) promote differential association theory.

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Corporal punishments like branding or amputation were designed to physically mark the offender as a form of public shaming and as a way to deter others from committing similar crimes.

Corporal Punishments Like Branding or Amputation, Commonly Used in Colonial