After reading about the crackdown on shoplifting at the local discount store by enforcing full criminal penalties allowed by law, Dave and Dre decided they would abandon their plan to steal new smart phones from Walmart. What crime control policy may have influenced their decision?

General Deterrence

Explanation:

Deterrence is of two types including:

1. General deterrence.

2. Specific deterrence.

General deterrence: The term general deterrence is defined as the process that is being designed to stop or prevent various crimes in a general population. In this scenario, this creates is a huge impact on people related to the legal punishment threat because the person involved in any illegal thing shall be punished in public in a way to humiliate the person. Hence, the other person who sees this will be scared of doing similar crimes.

In the question above, the statement signifies the "general deterrence".