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Criminological Theories (Integrated and Sociological) MCQ

Is theoretical range the types of crime a theory is intended to cover?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as offenders are made to feel humiliation due to their transgressions.

Shaming theory

None of these

Shaw and McKay

Anomie

Answer

Correct Answer: Shaming theory

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_____ is defined as deviance that ensues as a result of a person being labeled and stigmatized as a criminal.

Secondary deviance

Serial murder

Multicide

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Secondary deviance

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_____ is a theory that blames capitalism for crime and advocates violent revolution as a means of its eradication.

Race

Radical Marxist criminology

Social class

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Radical Marxist criminology

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Is primary deviance in labeling theory, this refers to the initial criminal act itself?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as in Marxist theory, such action is more important than theory.

None of these

Burglars

Snitches

Praxis (practical critical action)

Answer

Correct Answer: Praxis (practical critical action)

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_____ is defined as a theoretical approach that attacks modernity or scientific rationality.

Victim provocation

Victim responsibility

Postmodernism

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Postmodernism

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_____ is advocates peace and justice as the solution to the crime problem.

Fraud

All of these

Peacemaking theory

Corporate crime

Answer

Correct Answer: Peacemaking theory

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Is left realism a theoretical attempt to translate radical ideas into realistic social policy?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as asserts that crime is a label attached to wrongdoing, and often the label becomes a stigma that increases criminality (also called societal reaction theory).

Labeling theory

All of these

Social control

Anomie

Answer

Correct Answer: Labeling theory

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_____ is defined as the error of attempting to have a specific theory explain all crime.

All of these

Employer

Global fallacy

Looking-glass self

Answer

Correct Answer: Global fallacy

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_____ is approach that takes the view that criminology has been biased and does not express the female viewpoint.

All of these

Punks

Feminist criminology

Chicken hawks

Answer

Correct Answer: Feminist criminology

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Is critical criminology consists of a variety of perspectives that challenge basic assumptions of mainstream criminology?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as attempts to identify types of crime.

None of these

Criminal typologies

Informants

Whistleblowers

Answer

Correct Answer: Criminal typologies

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_____ is defined as a typology of crimes that looks at identification with crime, societal reaction, and group involvement.

Increase in scams

All of these

Robotics and cloning

Criminal behavior systems

Answer

Correct Answer: Criminal behavior systems

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Which of the following is a tenet of critical criminology?

Advocating incapacitation rather than rehabilitation

Emphasis on the criminalization of behavior

Mild pessimism

Conservative optimism on reform measures

Answer

Correct Answer: Mild pessimism

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Quinney posits that criminal law is an instrument of the state and the ruling class to maintain and perpetuate the existing social and economic order.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Which of the following is not a type of new critical theories?

Labeling

Left realism

Peacemaking

Postmodernism

Answer

Correct Answer: Labeling

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The theory that suggests that individuals are deviant because they have been tagged as deviant by society is called ______.

Labeling

Feminist

Left realism

Marxist

Answer

Correct Answer: Labeling

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The focus of critical theories is on the individual and not society as a whole.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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What is a primary critique of the use of crime typologies?

No single typology is useful for all offenders.

Typologies underscore certain aspects.

Under-simplifying reality

The large number of criminals who specialize

There is no variation in specific offenses.

Answer

Correct Answer: No single typology is useful for all offenders.

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Global fallacy refers to the unit(s) of analysis and levels of explanation that may be sought in a particular theory.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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_______ is the theorist most associated with the labeling theory.

Tannenbaum

Daly

Quinney

Turk

Answer

Correct Answer: Tannenbaum

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Critical criminology reflects the conflict model.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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The critical theory that attempts to explain criminality through a transcendental or religious approach is called ______.

Left realism

Peacemaking

Conflict

Marxist

Answer

Correct Answer: Peacemaking

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Feminist theory argues that stigmatizing shaming of offenders makes matters worse and increases crime.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Which three theories is Thornberry’s interactional theory integration of?

Social structure, social disorganization, and strain

Social disorganization, strain, and control

Feminist, labeling, and strain

Control, learning, and social structure

Answer

Correct Answer: Control, learning, and social structure

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Which of the following is/are the primary area(s) of study in feminist criminology?

Victimization of women

Gender differences in crime

Gendered justice

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: All of these

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Elliott’s integrative theory combines all of the following except ______.

Strain (anomie)

Social control

Differential association

Learning

Answer

Correct Answer: Differential association

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According to radical criminologists, ______ causes crime.

The patriarchy

Stigma

Lack of legitimate opportunity

Capitalism

Answer

Correct Answer: Capitalism

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