CC 100 quiz chapter (1) What is Criminology?

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

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

The most common sentence in Canada is Probation

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

What is Criminology?

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

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

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

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

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]

examples of psychological approaches include:

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

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

What is CPTED?

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

Which of the following are true of Green Criminology?

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

What is the social definition of terrorism?

which of the following are true regarding Surveillance Studies?

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

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

A crime is an act that [blank_start]violates[blank_end] criminal law and is [blank_start]punishable[blank_end]

Human rights violations as crime is:

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

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

Criminalization process - how certain behaviours become [blank_start]criminalized[blank_end] over time while others become [blank_start]decriminalized[blank_end]

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

Crime is socially defined