Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
never make it unless he somehow managed to PICK A CRIME By RICHARD R. SMITH treatment and taking it. But you wouldn't do that. You wanted to commit a crime, get caught and be a hero ... an were laughing, squealing with joy as they played games designed by CPA watching the children. The whole world was filled with CPA employees and volunteer workers. Everywhere you went, it was there, quietly watching you and analyzing you, and if you showed criminal tendencies, it watched you even more closely and analyzed you even more deeply Work! Work! Exes always get good jobs because employers know they're good workers. It was easy enough to understand, he reflected, but a lot harder to do. The CPA robot bartenders saw to it that anyone got high if they wanted, illegal—a bartender always watered the drinks. Joe had tried dozens of times in dozens of bars to outsmart them, but had always failed. And in all of New York's millions, there had been only a hundred cases of intoxication during the previous year. The girl laughed. "If you're that hard up, I don't know if I should take this fifty or not. Why don't you go out and get a job like get another—everyone was required by law to carry a CPA ID card and "I'm sorry," the girl said. "I didn't know you were a DCT." "And who'll hire a guy with criminal tendencies? You know the score. When you try to get a job, they ask to see your ID before they even tell you if there's an opening or not. If your CPA ID says you're a Unlawful to divulge CPA procedure several jobs ... jobs like all DCTs get. I've been a garbage man, street-cleaner, ditch-digger—" locked in a prison and taxpayers' money would have supported you until the day you died. With the CPA system, you're returned to society, a DCT, you're SOL and they tell you there's no openings. Oh, I've had across the table and whispered in the girl's ear, "That's what I want to hire you for. I want you to help me commit a crime. If I get convicted of a crime, I'll be able to get a good job!" "See what I mean?" Hendricks asked. "A century ago, you would have been . something big to plan a crime. A civilization weary of murder, robbery, kidnapping, counterfeiting, blackmail, rape, arson, and drunkenness had originated the CPA—Crime Prevention Association. There were no longer any prisons—CPA officials had declared loudly and emphatically that their job was to prevent crime, not punish it. And prevent it they did, with thousands of ingenious crime-prevention devices and methods. They had made crime almost impossible, and during the previous year, only a few hundred men in the whole country had been convicted of criminal acts. No crime was ever punished. If a man was smart enough to kill someone, for instance, he wasn't sent to prison to be punished he Hendricks laughed. "You'll change your opinion. We live in a clean, wonderful world, Joe. A world of happy, healthy people. Except for freaks like yourself, criminals are—" criminal tendencies were removed from his mind by psychologists, shock criminals—only ten in New York during the past year—any city could afford the CPA hospitals. The CPA system was, actually, cheaper than previous methods because treatments, encephalographic devices, a form of prefrontal lobotomy and a dozen other methods. An expensive operation, but since there were few commit a crime was a sort of hero. He was a hero to the millions of men and women who had suppressed impulses to kill someone, beat their mates, get drunk, or kick a dog. Not only a hero, but because of the CPA Treatment, he was—when he left one of the CPA hospitals—a thoroughly honest and hard-working individual ... a And therefore, an EX (a convicted criminal who received the treatment was commonly called an Ex because he was in the strictest sense of the word an Ex-criminal) ... an Ex was always offered the best jobs. "Well," the girl said. "I'm honored. Really. But I got a date at ten. intended victim—and because millions of women voters had voted it a crime. On the other hand, attempted murder, robbery, kidnapping, etc., were not crimes. They weren't crimes because the DCT didn't complete the act, and if he didn't complete the act, that meant simply that the CPA had once again functioned properly. had collapsed beneath him. Conspiracy to commit a crime wasn't a crime. Anyone could conspire. And if the conspirators were prevented from committing a crime, then that meant the CPA had functioned properly once again. That meant the CPA had once again the CPA didn't punish crimes or attempted crimes, and it didn't attempt because it's exciting to be an amateur cop, and if they ever did prevent you from committing a crime, they'd get a nice reward and they'd be famous." thousands of people like them. Years ago, they got their kicks from reading about guys like you, but these days things are dull because it's rare when anyone commits a crime. So every time you walk down the street, there'll be at least a dozen of 'em following you, and no CPA clubs. They keep records of hoodlums like you in little cardboard criminals ... to hate them as nothing has ever been hated before. your CPA system, a DCT can't get a decent job." "Can't do it. Convicting a man of a crime he didn't commit is a own imagination. He hated the CPA and at night he couldn't shrug the feeling that the CPA lurked in every shadow, watching him, waiting for Imagination or not, the CPA was almost everywhere a person went. with pain and he felt suffocated. The CPA was everywhere, only now it supervision of the CPA, it was a scientific colossus and to think of kidnapping someone or to contemplate the use of narcotics was pointless. A counterfeiter's career was always short-lived: every place of business and millions of individuals had small counterfeit-detectors that could spot a fake and report it directly to the Brain. And the percentage of crimes had dwindled even more with the appearance of the robot police officers. Many a criminal in the past had gambled that he could outshoot a pursuing policeman. But the robots were required to operate the CPA devices cost each taxpayer an average of And the CPA had attacked crime through society itself, striking at subconscious over and over, year after year, until he knew that crime was the same as filth and that criminals were filthy things. Except men like Joe Harper. No system is perfect. Along with thousands law, it would have been wired with CPA burglarproof devices, but crime, but the newspapers would splash satirical headlines. Instead of being respected as a successful criminal, he would be ridiculed. for the CPA to prove ownership and that a crime had been committed. Thief! Police! Help! " When Joe was securely handcuffed to a seat inside the helicopter, the metal police officers rang doorbells. There was a reward for anyone who cameramen and autograph hunters. He'd waited a long time for this day. But now—another change in him— glad the CPA caught you, and because they're glad you're an Ex. You're an ex -criminal now, and because of your treatment, you'll never be able to commit another crime as long as you live. And that's the kind of guy they admire, so they want to see you, shake your hand and get would have cheered even louder. He knew: he had stood outside the CPA employee and he doesn't live in the apartment you robbed. The CPA pays

<question>:
In what significant way was the CPA system different than other judicial systems for criminals?

<options>:
A Crimes were not punished.
B All crimes had the same punishment.
C Criminals were kept on lock-down forever without any kind of trial.
D Criminals were hired for higher-up jobs in society.

<answer>:

A