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Intro to Criminology
Alyssa Elligson
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Question 1

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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, new Canadian laws were enacted against:
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  • Vagrancy, Drunkenness and Prostitution
  • Drugs & Alcohol
  • Property Crimes
  • Robbery

Question 2

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

Question 3

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The most common sentence in Canada is Probation
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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A critical criminologist is most likely to suggest which of the following explanations for a criminal's behaviour?
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  • Drugs
  • Critical thinking
  • The criminal was penalized unfairly by laws created by the elite to reflect their values
  • Criminals were not penalized unfairly

Question 5

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What is Criminology?
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  • 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

Question 6

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the new laws that emerged to deal with cultural conflict caused by immigration are:
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  • Opium smoking
  • Hashish
  • Cocaine
  • Meth

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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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
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  • little empirical evidence to support a crime gene
  • criminality is biological
  • personality traits can predispose people to commit crimes
  • criminality is not biological

Question 10

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Psychological approaches focus on [blank_start]individual criminal behaviour[blank_end], predicting risk of [blank_start]reoffending[blank_end], and evaluating the effectiveness of [blank_start]treatment and rehabilitation[blank_end]
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  • individual criminal behaviour
  • group criminal behaviours
  • criminal behaviour
  • reoffending
  • reoffending
  • re-victimization
  • trauma
  • crime
  • treatment and medications
  • treatment and rehabilitation
  • treatment
  • rehabilitation

Question 11

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examples of psychological approaches include:
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  • psychoanalysis
  • personality theory
  • theory of moral development
  • developmental theories
  • all of the above

Question 12

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

Question 13

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Criminology is an evolving discipline: the emerging fields of [blank_start]green[blank_end] criminology, [blank_start]terrorism[blank_end] studies & [blank_start]surveillance[blank_end] studies
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  • green
  • terrorism
  • surveillance

Question 14

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What is CPTED?
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  • Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
  • Crime Prevention Through Environment Daily
  • Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design used to increase natural surveillance
  • Crime Prevention

Question 15

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

Question 16

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Which of the following are true of Green Criminology?
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  • 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

Question 17

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Terrorism studies examine the recruitment & [blank_start]training[blank_end] of terrorists, their organizations, their links to [blank_start]crime[blank_end] & how to prevent terrorism
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  • training
  • teaching
  • skill training
  • criminology
  • crime
  • police
  • culture

Question 18

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What is the social definition of terrorism?
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  • people committing bad crimes
  • crimes against the country
  • deliberate use or threat to use violence against civilians to attain political, ideological and religious goals

Question 19

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which of the following are true regarding Surveillance Studies?
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  • 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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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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)
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  • True
  • False

Question 22

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A crime is an act that [blank_start]violates[blank_end] criminal law and is [blank_start]punishable[blank_end]
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  • discredits
  • violates
  • disobeys
  • doesn't follow
  • capital
  • worthy of punishment
  • punishable
  • harmful

Question 23

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Human rights violations as crime is:
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  • 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

Question 24

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Hagan says crime should be considered as a continuum from [blank_start]most[blank_end] serious to [blank_start]least[blank_end] serious acts, based on 3 dimensions: 1. the degree of [blank_start]consensus[blank_end] that an act is wrong 2. the severity of [blank_start]society's response[blank_end] to the act 3. The [blank_start]amount of harm[blank_end] caused by the act
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  • most
  • least
  • consensus
  • society's response
  • amount of harm

Question 25

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

Question 26

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Criminalization process - how certain behaviours become [blank_start]criminalized[blank_end] over time while others become [blank_start]decriminalized[blank_end]
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  • criminalized
  • new
  • criminals
  • decriminalized
  • normal
  • old

Question 27

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

Question 28

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Crime is socially defined
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  • True
  • False
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