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Intro to Criminology

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CC 100 quiz chapter (1) What is Criminology?

Question 1 of 28

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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, new Canadian laws were enacted against:

Select one of the following:

  • Vagrancy, Drunkenness and Prostitution

  • Drugs & Alcohol

  • Property Crimes

  • Robbery

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Question 2 of 28

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With respect to choice of research methods, it can be said that:

Select one of the following:

  • Psychologists are more likely to use qualitative research methods

  • Psychologists are more likely to use quantitative research methods

  • Lawyers are more likely to use qualitative research methods

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 3 of 28

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The most common sentence in Canada is Probation

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 4 of 28

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A critical criminologist is most likely to suggest which of the following explanations for a criminal's behaviour?

Select one of the following:

  • Drugs

  • Critical thinking

  • The criminal was penalized unfairly by laws created by the elite to reflect their values

  • Criminals were not penalized unfairly

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Question 5 of 28

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What is Criminology?

Select one of the following:

  • the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon

  • includes making of laws, breaking of laws & reaction to breaking of laws

  • both 1 and 2

  • The Criminal Justice System

Explanation

Question 6 of 28

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the new laws that emerged to deal with cultural conflict caused by immigration are:

Select one or more of the following:

  • Opium smoking

  • Hashish

  • Cocaine

  • Meth

Explanation

Question 7 of 28

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The democratic shift brought increases in male populations, alcohol consumption, divorce rates and in the use of mind-altering drugs

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 8 of 28

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What are the 6 major areas in the discipline of Criminology?

Select one or more of the following:

  • the definition of crime and criminals

  • critical criminologists

  • the social distribution of crime

  • the origins and role of law

  • policing

  • causation of crime

  • patterns of criminal behaviour

  • courts and corrections

  • societal reactions to crime

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Question 9 of 28

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Which of the following are true, In terms of Biological Approaches, Cesare Lombroso and the Positivist school argued that criminality was a biological trait

Select one of the following:

  • little empirical evidence to support a crime gene

  • criminality is biological

  • personality traits can predispose people to commit crimes

  • criminality is not biological

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Question 10 of 28

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

Psychological approaches focus on ( individual criminal behaviour, group criminal behaviours, criminal behaviour, reoffending ), predicting risk of ( reoffending, re-victimization, trauma, crime ), and evaluating the effectiveness of ( treatment and medications, treatment and rehabilitation, treatment, rehabilitation )

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Question 11 of 28

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examples of psychological approaches include:

Select one of the following:

  • psychoanalysis

  • personality theory

  • theory of moral development

  • developmental theories

  • all of the above

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Question 12 of 28

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Sociological approaches examine how social conditions (context) can influence our laws and crime rates

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 13 of 28

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Criminology is an evolving discipline: the emerging fields of criminology, studies & studies

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Question 14 of 28

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What is CPTED?

Select one of the following:

  • Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

  • Crime Prevention Through Environment Daily

  • Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design used to increase natural surveillance

  • Crime Prevention

Explanation

Question 15 of 28

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Geographic Profiling studies urban environments & the behaviours of serial predators to determine the likely residence of a specific offender

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 16 of 28

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Which of the following are true of Green Criminology?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Rooted in human rights movements

  • focus on harmful actions against animals in slaughterhouses, abbatoirs, zoos etc.

  • calls for tighter animal cruelty laws

  • is about becoming a green community

Explanation

Question 17 of 28

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

Terrorism studies examine the recruitment & ( training, teaching, skill training ) of terrorists, their organizations, their links to ( criminology, crime, police, culture ) & how to prevent terrorism

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Question 18 of 28

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What is the social definition of terrorism?

Select one of the following:

  • people committing bad crimes

  • crimes against the country

  • deliberate use or threat to use violence against civilians to attain political, ideological and religious goals

Explanation

Question 19 of 28

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which of the following are true regarding Surveillance Studies?

Select one or more of the following:

  • it means being watched

  • technology for surveillance has grown so much that huge amounts of personal information are available

  • it is defined as "any systematic focus on personal information in order to influence, manage, entitle, or control whose whose information is collected"

  • criminologists study impact of this

Explanation

Question 20 of 28

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In terms of Research Methods, Lawyers and Sociologists are more likely to use quantitative research methods

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 21 of 28

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Psychologists and Economists are more likely to use quantitative research methods (e.g. numerical analysis of data- mathematical, statistical, computational techniques)

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 22 of 28

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

A crime is an act that ( discredits, violates, disobeys, doesn't follow ) criminal law and is ( capital, worthy of punishment, punishable, harmful )

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Question 23 of 28

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Human rights violations as crime is:

Select one of the following:

  • A. Based on human rights, rather than legal status

  • B. a common form of crime

  • C. An act violating someone's rights to the necessities of life

  • D. Both A and C are correct

Explanation

Question 24 of 28

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Hagan says crime should be considered as a continuum from serious to serious acts, based on 3 dimensions:
1. the degree of that an act is wrong

2. the severity of to the act

3. The caused by the act

Explanation

Question 25 of 28

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Based on Hagen's seriousness- What are the 4 categories of crime & deviance?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Consensus crimes - crimes that almost everyone in society agrees should be punished (murder, arson, rape)

  • Social crimes

  • Conflict crimes- wrong by prohibition (drug, alcohol crimes)

  • Social deviations- violation of cultural/social norms (folkways)

  • Social diversions- not necessarily criminal but officially controlled (parking ticket, trespassing)

Explanation

Question 26 of 28

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Criminalization process - how certain behaviours become over time while others become

Drag and drop to complete the text.

    criminalized
    new
    criminals
    decriminalized
    normal
    old

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Question 27 of 28

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Net widening means new laws and new methods of supervision may increase the size of the population under "social control"

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 28 of 28

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Crime is socially defined

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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