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Characteristics of Crime and Criminals MCQ

_____ is known as crime is highest in urban areas and lowest in rural areas.

Operationalization

Triangulation

All of these

Urban versus rural crime

Answer

Correct Answer: Urban versus rural crime

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_____ is defined as socioeconomic status is measured using income, education, and occupation.

Social class

None of these

It accounts for social control.

It takes into account negative relationships.

Answer

Correct Answer: Social class

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_____ is the belief that the observation of media violence increases the propensity to violence.

Cloward and Ohlin

Shaw and McKay

All of these

Precipitation hypothesis

Answer

Correct Answer: Precipitation hypothesis

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Is institutions organizations that serve a broad range of interests in society, such as the family?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as most crime is committed by males historically and internationally with the exception of prostitution.

Cultural

All of these

Pathological

Gender

Answer

Correct Answer: Gender

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_____ is defined as the trend that poverty increasingly takes place within female-headed households.

Feminization of poverty

Vito Genovese

None of these

Al Capone

Answer

Correct Answer: Feminization of poverty

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Is fallacy of autonomy the erroneous belief that failings of the family are separate and independent of inequality, racism, and discrimination?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as in the post–World War II period, crime had declined until the mid-1960s, when it exploded. The crime dip began in the United States in 1992.

Crime trends

Victim responsibility

Victim precipitation

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Crime trends

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_____ is defined as crimes in which criminals imitate crimes that were previously publicized.

All of these

Victim surveys

Copycat crimes

Fraud

Answer

Correct Answer: Copycat crimes

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_____ is the belief that the observation of media violence serves as an emotional release and lessens violence.

Atavism

Catharsis hypothesis

Phrenology

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Catharsis hypothesis

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Is androcentric bias the charge that criminology has reflected a male-centered bias?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a disagreement among criminologists as to whether all “mature out of crime” or whether some remain career criminals.

All of these

Mild pessimism

Interactionist model

Age-crime debate

Answer

Correct Answer: Age-crime debate

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Formal education and criminal behavior and/or arrest rates have an inverse relationship. This means that as the amount of formal education increases, the crime rate ______.

Increases

Decreases

Stays the same

Multiplies

Answer

Correct Answer: Decreases

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Crime that violates the laws of several international sovereignties or impacts sovereignty is ______.

Institutional crime

Political crime

Organized crime

Transnational crime

Answer

Correct Answer: Transnational crime

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The low crime rate in Japan is achieved by a strong Gemeinschaft.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Which region in the U.S. has the highest overall crime rate?

South

Northeast

Midwest

West

Answer

Correct Answer: South

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The group of offenders whose offending does not decrease over time is referred to as?

Institutional criminals

Career criminals

Gray criminals

Elderly criminals

Answer

Correct Answer: Career criminals

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Which one of the following is the most important reason attempting to explain differences in criminality among males and females?

Differential treatment

Psychological differences

Poverty

Social views

Answer

Correct Answer: Differential treatment

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The peak arrest age for crime is between 16 and 18 years (for property and violent crimes, respectively).

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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The highest overall crime rates were experienced by the nations of Western Europe during the 1970s.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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______ describes a discriminatory practice by some police departments of stopping and searching a disproportionate number of minorities.

Jim Crow laws

Slavery

Racial profiling

Androcentric bias

Answer

Correct Answer: Racial profiling

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According to the authors, ______ is the best universal predictor of criminality.

Gender

Social class

Race

Age

Answer

Correct Answer: Gender

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The “Cambridge–Somerville study” discovered that delinquents come from what type of home environment?

Poor home environments with little parental education

Conservative home environments

Weak parental discipline and a quarrelsome home environment

Religious home environments

Answer

Correct Answer: Weak parental discipline and a quarrelsome home environment

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Androcentric bias is female-centered.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Fads in crime that are often simulated by media portrayals or depictions are referred to as ______.

Official crimes

Precipitation crimes

Copycat crimes

Urban recorded crime

Answer

Correct Answer: Copycat crimes

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Which of the following is not a difficulty in comparing crime across countries?

Available funding

Differential operating practices

Differential recording practices

Varying definitions

Answer

Correct Answer: Available funding

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Cross-cultural comparisons of crime statistics are difficult owing to the different definitions of crime across societies.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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