Punishment is said to be a deterrence for crime. This means that it does what to crimes?

Encourages

Increases

Labels

Discourages

Not so difficoult! To discourage!

The answer is D: discourages.

noun Deterrence: the action or the fact of deterring (preventing, stopping) people from doing something.

adjective Deterrent: Making someone less likely to do something by making it difficult for them to do it or by making them realize that it will have bad results.

A: encourage is the opposite of discourage.

B: increase: grow, expand, become greater.

C: label: classify, decribe, identify.